Even more of it comes from trying to fit wide swathes of literature into a unified canon governed by the same rules. (E.g., act structures.)
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So many of us spend so much time trying to stretch prose stories out onto a framework that made sense for *plays*.
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Or pruning our voice out of a story until it's nothing but a set of bullet points with dialogue.
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Or trying to figure out a way to center a story that's not about conflict around a conflict, because reasons.
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Also, the reason I named Palahniuk, King, and Clancy? Is because they're among the writers whose advice I see touted most often.
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@alexandraerin Their advice tends to revolve around "Strip away, strip away" which is popular advice1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes -
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@arthur_affect More so Tom and Chuck than Steve, but yeah.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@alexandraerin The standard creative-writing course "strip away" logic straight up states Dickens is a bad incompetent writer4 replies 6 retweets 7 likes -
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And these are the same people who all but worship Hemingway, He Who Hates Modifiers.
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@asymbina@alexandraerin When they attack purple prose they tend to do it in gendered terms - "flowery", "precious", etc3 replies 5 retweets 2 likes
@asymbina @alexandraerin "Good writing" is measured on the basis of what's in vogue which is a reaction to what we're sick of
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@arthur_affect@RemingtonWild@asymbina@alexandraerin See: how people accept "Lara" in the "Tomb Raider" "reboot" despite what it does.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - Show replies
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