Literary is Better Than Genre or vice-versa. Discuss (heatedly)

mccardey

Self-Ban
Kind Benefactor
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Feb 10, 2010
Messages
19,212
Reaction score
15,820
Location
Australia.
Well, we haven't done it for ages
 

ap123

Twitching
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Jun 4, 2007
Messages
5,648
Reaction score
1,732
Location
In the 212
Ooh, what’s this? I've never seen this game before. Is it fun?

*curious newbie bats at the shiny thing*

Tons of fun! Usually devolves into many hurt feels and thread lost to the asylum. The best ones produce a good flounce. :roll:
 

Coddiwomple

shipwrecked in antiquity
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Jul 11, 2018
Messages
1,784
Reaction score
1,310
Location
Far away
Tons of fun! Usually devolves into many hurt feels and thread lost to the asylum. The best ones produce a good flounce. :roll:

Can we make it a drinking game, like with a bingo card? A banning gets a free space? Puleeeez?:hooray:
 

AW Admin

Administrator
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Apr 19, 2008
Messages
18,772
Reaction score
6,285
Please.

If it's not in Middle English, Latin, Old Irish, Middle Welsh, Old English, or Old Norse, it's crap.

Passive Voice Rulez !
 

Coddiwomple

shipwrecked in antiquity
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Jul 11, 2018
Messages
1,784
Reaction score
1,310
Location
Far away
So many squares for the bingo card already!

- a flouncing
- a banning
- tears before bedtime
- Oxford comma
- Prologues
- Two-space defenders who will burn in hell forever
- Ari driven to the bottle
- And COMIC SANS. COMIC SANS of all things!

This gonna be some party. :popcorn:
 

ap123

Twitching
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Jun 4, 2007
Messages
5,648
Reaction score
1,732
Location
In the 212
Let's not forget third person present tense.
 

Coddiwomple

shipwrecked in antiquity
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Jul 11, 2018
Messages
1,784
Reaction score
1,310
Location
Far away
This thread makes me feel like a puppy... :snoopy: I want to play but I'm too clumsy to catch the ball but it's funny and exciting anyway!! :snoopy:

Yesterday I’m at the barn which consists of two long aisles of stalls connected to a covered ring and it’s raining and there’s nobody but me and the horses and I’m putting away my saddle and this HAPPY MUDDY YELLOW DOG comes out of nowhere and charges up to me and says hello and races up and down the aisle and zips into the covered ring and loops in circles at just under the speed of light and then races past me and it’s GONE. Back out the door into the rain.

No idea where it came from.

Wait, should I be drinking? Am I doing this right?
 

Kjbartolotta

Potentially has/is dog
Super Member
Registered
Joined
May 15, 2014
Messages
4,197
Reaction score
1,049
Location
Los Angeles
When it comes down to it, literary or genre, all superior stories contain these three elements:

-MC is a college professor or something, keeps hitting on his students.
-There should be a talking dog at some point.
-At the end, you should ask yourself 'Do the objects in my closet bring me joy?'
 

ap123

Twitching
Super Member
Registered
Joined
Jun 4, 2007
Messages
5,648
Reaction score
1,732
Location
In the 212
Yesterday I’m at the barn which consists of two long aisles of stalls connected to a covered ring and it’s raining and there’s nobody but me and the horses and I’m putting away my saddle and this HAPPY MUDDY YELLOW DOG comes out of nowhere and charges up to me and says hello and races up and down the aisle and zips into the covered ring and loops in circles at just under the speed of light and then races past me and it’s GONE. Back out the door into the rain.

No idea where it came from.

Wait, should I be drinking? Am I doing this right?

Drinking and angsting and starving in a garret, surrounded by stray cats waiting to strip the flesh from your bones as you howl at the gods.