TECH: Serious Work? A Quote
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writercisesoriginal posting: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 16:58:49 JST
"I think we all loathe the expressions _serious novel_ and _serious writer_, with the loaded implications that the wordworker who stresses action, the sheerly imaginative, or the fully nonexistent is somehow playing at writing and decidedly less talented. Worse, _mainstream_ and _serious story_ are often meant to convey that fantasists, detective story writers, and so on are less concerned with the important things." (p. 26)
(from the essay "Plotting as Your Power Source" by J.N. Williamson)
How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction
Ed. J.N. Williamson
1987, Writer's Digest Books
ISBN 0-89879-270-3
"I think we all loathe the expressions _serious novel_ and _serious writer_, with the loaded implications that the wordworker who stresses action, the sheerly imaginative, or the fully nonexistent is somehow playing at writing and decidedly less talented. Worse, _mainstream_ and _serious story_ are often meant to convey that fantasists, detective story writers, and so on are less concerned with the important things." (p. 26)
(from the essay "Plotting as Your Power Source" by J.N. Williamson)
How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction
Ed. J.N. Williamson
1987, Writer's Digest Books
ISBN 0-89879-270-3
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