Post by account_disabled on Dec 7, 2023 0:20:56 GMT -5
In this post I want to talk about writing in a different way. It won't be a guide on how to write better, on how to finish your novel. I want improving as writers to mean improving as writers and people. Because the writer has something different from the others, don't you think? He is, after all, an artist, he is someone who has a gift - that's how I wrote: gift - that someone else doesn't have. The writer stands out, but he can stand out better. Writing the unwritten We read more than others, perhaps, but we certainly read better .
Is it really necessary to still write stories that we have read dozens of times, stories written by many other writers? How can we differ from the authors who have published to date? We always carry forward the same literary genres, never someone who breaks the mold and proposes something different. I'm not saying invent a new genre - I for one abhor labels and categorization of narrative - but writing stories that are difficult to fit into a specific narrative genre, yes, it can be done, in my opinion. My impression is that every literary Phone Number Datagenre is made up of some sort of formula. There is a precise format, there are canons to be respected, otherwise it derails from the genre.
But can narrative be constrained and caged by rules? For decades the same works have been offered to readers. Perhaps it is TV and cinema that push writers towards this flattening of creativity. And comics are no different, so much so that I stopped reading them . Once upon a time it was cinema, indeed, that copied from comics, now the opposite happens. Lately I have discovered a writer who deviates from these canons. I'm talking about David Mitchell. I read Cloud Atlas and Nine Degrees of Freedom by him – somehow connected to the first – and I must say that they are novels that cannot be attributed to a genre. The genre, indeed, is the novel.
Is it really necessary to still write stories that we have read dozens of times, stories written by many other writers? How can we differ from the authors who have published to date? We always carry forward the same literary genres, never someone who breaks the mold and proposes something different. I'm not saying invent a new genre - I for one abhor labels and categorization of narrative - but writing stories that are difficult to fit into a specific narrative genre, yes, it can be done, in my opinion. My impression is that every literary Phone Number Datagenre is made up of some sort of formula. There is a precise format, there are canons to be respected, otherwise it derails from the genre.
But can narrative be constrained and caged by rules? For decades the same works have been offered to readers. Perhaps it is TV and cinema that push writers towards this flattening of creativity. And comics are no different, so much so that I stopped reading them . Once upon a time it was cinema, indeed, that copied from comics, now the opposite happens. Lately I have discovered a writer who deviates from these canons. I'm talking about David Mitchell. I read Cloud Atlas and Nine Degrees of Freedom by him – somehow connected to the first – and I must say that they are novels that cannot be attributed to a genre. The genre, indeed, is the novel.