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The discipline not to write setting: THE SHIELD and THE ORDER OF THE STICK

  Try not to write when you’re living here! -Rosemary Howard (Carrie Fisher), 30 Rock   As The Solute’s Grant Nebel has written, drama is a subtractive genre. Everything that isn’t an action by the characters reduces our identification with the characters. To maintain this kind of focus, though, a story must often sacrifice detail. The Shield held to […]