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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