please, authors, publish not your oh-so-literary journals, full of language to die for, disguised as novels.
I agree completely with what you're saying. There is a matter of personal choice involved: some people honestly prefer that kind of litrachur despite it being the celery of the fiction world (hard to chew and really not nutritious--hey, ask Steven Brust. And there's a point where I'm not going to argue that.
The problem, of course, comes when they think their litrachur is the only valid form of communication, never minding the fact that it's rapidly becoming an ivory-tower form which communicates solely to those who want to hear the message. They can praise themselves infinitely for that and berate the rest of the world for their blind-sheepness, despite the fact that there's plenty of brainy stuff that combines both interesting concepts AND interesting plot and characters.
Yeah, I see what you're saying. Some people do love this stuff. I think it needs its own niche, though--maybe not poetry exactly, but really it isn't just fiction.
I wonder if authors THINK about how much they are limiting their audience when they publish this stuff.
(Actually this was posted by accident, haha LJ spell check, but thanks for your comments!)
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I agree completely with what you're saying. There is a matter of personal choice involved: some people honestly prefer that kind of litrachur despite it being the celery of the fiction world (hard to chew and really not nutritious--hey, ask Steven Brust. And there's a point where I'm not going to argue that.
The problem, of course, comes when they think their litrachur is the only valid form of communication, never minding the fact that it's rapidly becoming an ivory-tower form which communicates solely to those who want to hear the message. They can praise themselves infinitely for that and berate the rest of the world for their blind-sheepness, despite the fact that there's plenty of brainy stuff that combines both interesting concepts AND interesting plot and characters.
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I wonder if authors THINK about how much they are limiting their audience when they publish this stuff.
(Actually this was posted by accident, haha LJ spell check, but thanks for your comments!)
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