Posted by Peter H on October 09, 2004 at 12:44:43 from 213.122.122.188 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: Grandpa Turner posted by Geoff Emerson on October 09, 2004 at 10:06:57:
Oh dear! I would have thought that a posting saying that AR had a brilliant writing technique would not have led to controversy. The next thing is - knowing Tarboard, someone will be asking me to apologise for it.
Yes, of course AR was inspired to create his stories and characters, ie he dreamt up the ideas, but the ability to make his characters 'real' (which is what Ed was referring to) relies on writer's craft. It is difficult to 'learn' this in a theoretical sense (eg by going to evening classes), otherwise as Geoff says, we'd all be doing it. AR refined his skills by years and years of writing and journalism - this is the only way to do it, unless you are J K Rowling (but I don't think much of her stuff anyway, and now I am being controversial).