Jürgen Hubert on Nostr: #writerscoffeeclub Mar 31: Do you work from premise to world or world to premise? The ...
#writerscoffeeclub Mar 31: Do you work from premise to world or world to premise?
The premise - "translating German folk tales into English" - inevitably leads to the world the tales are embedded in. Many of these tales are explicitly constructed around specific local geography, and even those without tend to include a lot of 19th century German cultural assumptions which I need to explain so that the tale will make sense for an international audience.
The premise - "translating German folk tales into English" - inevitably leads to the world the tales are embedded in. Many of these tales are explicitly constructed around specific local geography, and even those without tend to include a lot of 19th century German cultural assumptions which I need to explain so that the tale will make sense for an international audience.