tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post6744814775628549245..comments2024-03-28T16:39:46.847-04:00Comments on Tellers of Weird Tales: Johanson and the MonsterTerence E. Hanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-10151871004205858172022-12-07T01:44:37.194-05:002022-12-07T01:44:37.194-05:00What I find good about fainting narrators is that ...What I find good about fainting narrators is that at least it gets us away from the tiresome always competent heroes that are the absolute bane of such stories. To me it actually makes the characters more relatable. This is one of those rare notions where I think realism and pragmatism is not always what works best to convey the impression of something no one has ever seen. In my novel "Wrath of Atlantis", I went for a brief sense of paralysis induced by the size of a dinosaur, a paralysis the characters call "the Dino eye", which requires a mental effort to break from. Not as extreme as fainting, but anything getting us away from "powerful", invulnerable characters, who always know what to do, in my view is not a bad thing.Jean Stravinskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997420018321881829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-63711069898366916162022-12-03T08:33:01.729-05:002022-12-03T08:33:01.729-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jean Stravinskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997420018321881829noreply@blogger.com