tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11101950.post5976265021600920387..comments2023-11-02T15:31:22.535+00:00Comments on Michelle Styles:: The care and feeding of the plotted plant.Michelle Styleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03400990189443593076noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11101950.post-42381411621553268952008-03-25T06:59:00.000+00:002008-03-25T06:59:00.000+00:00Yes, Harry Potter is an excellent series, one of m...Yes, Harry Potter is an excellent series, one of my family's favourites and I do think Jo Rowling did a fantastic job of planting/foreshadowing.<BR/>Why was she able to do that? First of all, she famously wrote the last chapter of the last book BEFORE she was published. This meant that she basically knew what was going to happen and how it happened. She also knew that she was going to have a seven book series and so there had to be an overall structure to the thing.<BR/>Second, she had an excellent grasp of her world and the rules of her world. The rules in her world do not change.<BR/>Third, she has a good eye for details. She remembered details from previous books and incorporated them into her later books.<BR/>Fourth, she was the only author of the series, rather being part of a multi-author series. THus she retained control of her world.<BR/>But I will agreed that part of the joy of the HP series is the interweaving of plot lines and the little clues she uses.Michelle Styleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03400990189443593076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11101950.post-55919938775364530252008-03-24T21:52:00.000+00:002008-03-24T21:52:00.000+00:00Hi Michelle, I read you blog regularly and enjoy i...Hi Michelle, <BR/><BR/>I read you blog regularly and enjoy it very much. <BR/>After reading this post, I just had to mention the Harry Potter Series.<BR/>Rowling did such a good job of feeding so many tidbits of information all through the 7 books w/o making you go, why is she mentioning this? I wonder how she did it because the whole series was full of interweaving plot lines.Tara Pammihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04389082294309195445noreply@blogger.com