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[fajrdrako]

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. - Orson Welles, 1915 - 1985

Welles applied this to acting, but it seems to me it applies just as much to writing.

This morning Raven was citing a T-shirt a friend of hers saw in Edmonton: Bad acting makes me cranky. I immediately said, Bad writing makes me cranky. I want that T-shirt. - not that I'd ever wear it.

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[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

So did I. Also one in Hull.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

We went to the same Mucha exhibit - ? Cool! Was the one in Hull different?

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

It's a few years ago, so they've blurred into one. I can't even remember what year they were. Both in the 1990s-early 2000s, I think.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes - the exhibit I saw in Edinburgh was definitely in 2000, the year of the Dorothy Dunnett Gathering.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Bizarre. We went to the same exhibition, and didn't know each other in those days!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I love the notion that we might have gone on the same day. Without a clue.