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Post by Kikyou Saya Rin-Ren on Aug 2, 2006 21:17:12 GMT -5
When you're littler, in school they teach you when you're writing to only include important details. Not to add all sorts of extra stuff. If people are writing a book for real though, the need all that filler type stuff! For example: In a series called The Baby-Sitters Club, here's what it would sound like the way schools teach: There were 5 girls who baby-sat alot.
Not much to the 1,000+ book series when you put it like that, is it?
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Post by Butterscotch on Aug 2, 2006 21:21:06 GMT -5
It's true, some details are needed, but even the Baby Sitters Club can go overboard. The author often goes in very exact details of what the girls (especially Claudia and Stacy) are wearing. Off-topc: are there really 1000+ Baby Sitter Club books? Do they still write new ones?
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Post by Kikyou Saya Rin-Ren on Aug 2, 2006 21:33:49 GMT -5
On-topic: yes, ecspecially when they're describing the club and stuff, taking an entire chapter in every book.
Off-topic: I'm estimating. But they've got over 100 books I think in each part of the series, and they've got 4 series. (Baby-Sitters Club, Baby-sitters club mystery, baby-sitters club little sister, and friends forever, not to mention the super specials) and I don't know if they're still being written. I've got one called 'The Graduation Day' or something like that, but I haven't read it so I'm not sure if it ends there or not. From the back, I'm guessing it's the end.
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Post by Sakura-chan on Aug 4, 2006 21:35:08 GMT -5
Yeah, well when you are little, they just want to teach you the basic forms of writing. It's as you get older you (or people that like writing) begin to appreciate the details. When you get higher up in school, THEN they wants you to be detailed... To bad for them that i never really listened to my 1st grade teacher about the simple sentances.... ^_^
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Post by Kikyou Saya Rin-Ren on Aug 5, 2006 0:36:28 GMT -5
I know. Maybe I'm looking too much into the whole thing? XD I always liked to write detailed-ly
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