Originally Posted by
Dorian Gregory
What is this business about "pointless filler?" I hear this a lot on forums in various situations.
This is a creative writing forum, pointless filler does not exist. Look at the books written by R.A. Salvatore and J.R.R. Tolkien; two of the greatest fantasy fictions authors to have ever graced anyone's shelves. These books are filled with what might considered pointless filler and whomever considered it that would be terrible mistaken. Every tiny bit of information serves a purpose. That bit of information may set the mood, show a character is a different light or further examine the usual light, explains how the character reactions to others, or how others react to the character, or it does the more broad spectrum of building the world. This is why good fiction is generally so long, because you can't simply say Allaria and expect people to know everything about it as if you were saying Chicago or New York.
This is why so many will remain role players, with their names written in sand to be washed away by the tides and so very few will be able to carry out the task of writing their names in stone, on a front of a book that they have written.
