Re: RARA-AVIS: commercial and noir

From: phred deVecca ( frogprod@skywayusa.com)
Date: 29 Apr 2005


I THINK Doug said he checked and found out that Denny's opens at 6:30 AM on Sunday

ph
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Kerry J. Schooley
  To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 3:11 PM
  Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: commercial and noir

  At 09:08 AM 29/04/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>but evidently it's
>clear cut to him that people don't want to waste time on character
>development. Now, I'm just wondering if everybody knows this but me, and
>how clearly it
>comes across that a book is driven by one means or another.

  Like most of you, I think that plot and character development are not an
  either/or proposition. I suspect that what the "literary" set call
  character driven stories are those that exhibit the fundamental error of
  telling rather than showing. The narrator or the protagonist sit about
  telling us what goes through their minds and what type of person they are.
  This is so boring that the writer must employ a wide range of literary
  devices and stylistic flourishes just to keep the reader motivated. On the
  other hand, a story that shows will entertain readers to the point that the
  development of characters is taken in as evident as readers progress
  through the story, driven by their own curiosity to know what happens next.

  I find many writers of noir fiction make good use of three basic elements-
  style, plot and character. I've no idea why, with so many good books
  available and more every day, why anyone would settle for less. As Danny
  Finkleman, a Toronto DJ once said on his weekly Oldies radio show: "A good
  story is simply character revealed by plot, with snappy dialogue."

  Best,
  Kerry

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