Return-Path: Message-Id: <9208200509.AA02538@relay1.UU.NET> Date: Thu Aug 20 03:53:01 1992 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Kalevala Project -response to Veijo X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Thu Aug 20 03:53:01 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!cuvmb.bitnet!LOJBAN The people at LogFest I think disagree strongly with what you say in this message. The stories indeed stand on their own, but if we are to have any cohesiveness to a set of stories written by a a variety of people, many with no particular talent for literary writing, we need some common setting that is well enough developed that the stories hang together. Otherwise we just have an anthology of random stories, which loses the joint-ness of the project. The effort of those who worked hard to come up with the scenario, and the rather inspirational effect it seemed to have as the coffeeshop came together in peoples minds, is just the type of consensus work that we lojbo do well, and I want to see more of it. Indeed, the better writers can invent stories and worlds of their own, and characters as well. Others may choose to have their story rest in an interaction between patrons and staff in the coffeeshop, which itself is a basis for a lot of powerful story imagery, and, given some preparatory work in character development of the staff, allows people with perhaps less skill or imagination to still tell a reasonable story, concentrating on the Lojban and NOT on the creative work that not all of us do so well. lojbab