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By George, that makes sense.
It's the most sensical paragraph ever written by me at that time on this date and that's the truth
Literary is Better Than Genre or vice-versa. Discuss (heatedly)
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My Stories are all about acerbic, ennui-blasted professors of postmodern literature having torrid affairs with their undergrad students, but the students are also sexy aliens. Lit or genre?
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Yes. The prologue is in second person future tense.
You are a sexy alien, and you are going to meet an older but still alluring professor, with dark eyes not so much bloodshot as blood red rubies that are also really intelligent, hair not so much grey and sparse as silver and in tactical retreat, and a respectable property portfolio in South London....
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My novel may look and read like literary but don't call it that. It's a new genre I've just created. IF YOU CALL IT LITERARY, I WILL GIVE YOU SUCH A PINCH AND CALL YOU OUT IN A SARCASTICALLY-WORDED BLOG POST AND I WON'T CARE IF I EMBARRASS YOU AND MAKE YOU CRY, IT'LL BE SUCH AN AMAZING BLOG POST, EVERYBODY WILL RUSH TO BUY MY NOT-LITERARY NOVEL AND THEY'LL THINK YOU'RE DUMB AND STUPID AND CAN'T EVEN READ SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS A CEREAL BOX.
Are you, in fact, writing a cereal box? Because those babies sell. Shelves full of them!
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Why don't they have scratch and sniff books for grownups!
Or for dogs. I want to read books with my dogs.
But not literary books. Because books with dogs only count as literary if the dog dies, right?
I hate it when they do that. Death to the literary dog killers!
What if there was a story about a literary cereal box was having a meeting with other cereal boxes that are representative of the different genres of fiction?
Does that make it literary or genre?
Also someone hacked my millions of duplicate accounts. It may have been that person....you know....on the internet....that writes stuff? Heard of them?
Does that make it literary or genre?
Also someone hacked my millions of duplicate accounts. It may have been that person....you know....on the internet....that writes stuff? Heard of them?
And here comes Chris with more sidetracked historical trivia irrelevance (because he's smarter than you and is the only one who remembers the 80s): Some cereal company serialized a comic on its box back in the 80s. Chex, I think it was. Trufax.
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*rushes into thread*
I haven't read any of the thread, including the OP, but I have Opinions on Everything and I will now share my Opinions on Everything
I haven't read any of the thread, including the OP, but I have Opinions on Everything and I will now share my Opinions on Everything
Did Capt'n Crunch know?
Oooooo, dat Capt'n Crunch be a crazy captain!
Evidence:
I would never have stooped so low as Cap'n Crunch. Only good high fiber non-genre literary cereals will grace my pallet.
TWINKLES THE ELEPHANT had the first cereal serial.
Yes, I am that old. Fight me. Or at least rev up your rotor tail, goddammit.
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In dog fiction, it's only literature if the human dies.
"OMG - I hated reading those classics in puppy school! That scene where the kid got rabies and Ol' Yeller had to kill him... whined for hours, and tore my toys apart!"
What are your Opinions on the Rule that you can't start more than three sentences on a page with "The" if you want to sell your manuscript? Someone once told me it was a Rule, and I read part of this one page of this one book somewhere (I don't really read, I don't think I should read if I want to write because my head will be full of other people's words and a real author should invent their own, dglurmpt vu thkinzz ghso?) and there were four sentences that started with "The," so clearly it's a Thing everyone must do because an exception proves a Rule, doesn't it?
Keep in mind I'll ask again next week in a slightly different thread, and again after that, until I get the answer I want, and until then I'll be passive-aggressive about clinging to this Rule in the face of any and all evidence that it's bunk.
Also, said and ask vs. said-bookisms.
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Get offa my lawn, ya darn kid ya.
::munches her Star-Shaped Goodness in Toasted Oats 'n Corn::
I haven't had my coffee yet. What am I looking at and why is it drawing me into its strange kingdom????
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