The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A book makes claims of literary art.
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.
I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character.
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