[Dragaera] _Taltos_ and _The Hobbit_

Ray Lee ray at madrabbit.org
Tue Aug 17 13:19:26 PDT 2010


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Peter Granzeau <pgranzeau at cox.net> wrote:

> At 01:17 PM 8/17/2010, Jerry Friedman wrote:
> >Who's Campbell?
>
> John W. Campbell (1910-1971), longtime editor of Astounding Science
> Fiction/Analog Science Fiction - Science Fact, from 1937 to his death, who
> possibly was the single greatest influence on the genre.  I think a group of
> his rules for writing are around, although I can't find them right now.


While we're on the subject of Campbell, here's a nice writeup of the steps
of The Hero's Journey.

    http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/smc/journey/ref/summary.html

~r.



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