Post by account_disabled on Dec 28, 2023 8:30:20 GMT
It's curious to see how you change your mind in creative writing. In November 2013 I said no to literary genres and not even two years later, in August 2015, I spoke about the undisputed existence of literary genres . Be consistent, first of all. In reality, I'm not surprised, I've often changed my mind on editorial issues: experience teaches us, it makes us see the world differently. If before I saw literary genres as a cage, now I see them as a necessity. Classifying a novel in its own narrative genre is an operation that not everyone likes. In this article I want to explain why it is right to do so. But let's start from the beginning.
Does the story come first or the literary genre first? Maybe it's like the unresolved question of the chicken and the egg: the birth of the first implies at the same time the existence of the other. Thus there is no history without its literary genre and no history can be born that is not already ascribed to a literary genre. Although Special Data perhaps, in this case, the stories were born first and then the genres. When it comes to writing, however, for many authors the situation is different: they think about the story first and then, if anything, choose the most appropriate genre in which to classify it. Perhaps many are convinced that it is better to act in this sense, but my thoughts are different.
I have never thought of or written a story without already having in mind the literary genre in which to insert it: story and genre always arise together in my head. Why it is important to establish the literary genre first Each narrative genre has its own canons and requires different documentation and different readings of that genre in order to master it well. If you've never read a fantasy novel, you can't start writing fantasy novels. Literary genres play an important role for the author: they allow you to write stories more effectively . They are the vehicles with which the author decides to tell his story. A target audience of readers Let's think for a moment about readers: they are the recipients of our stories. What stories do they want to read? If I have to tell the truth, I have serious difficulty understanding whether a novel might interest me or not if I don't immediately recognize its literary genre. For me, reading varies as my mood changes.
Does the story come first or the literary genre first? Maybe it's like the unresolved question of the chicken and the egg: the birth of the first implies at the same time the existence of the other. Thus there is no history without its literary genre and no history can be born that is not already ascribed to a literary genre. Although Special Data perhaps, in this case, the stories were born first and then the genres. When it comes to writing, however, for many authors the situation is different: they think about the story first and then, if anything, choose the most appropriate genre in which to classify it. Perhaps many are convinced that it is better to act in this sense, but my thoughts are different.
I have never thought of or written a story without already having in mind the literary genre in which to insert it: story and genre always arise together in my head. Why it is important to establish the literary genre first Each narrative genre has its own canons and requires different documentation and different readings of that genre in order to master it well. If you've never read a fantasy novel, you can't start writing fantasy novels. Literary genres play an important role for the author: they allow you to write stories more effectively . They are the vehicles with which the author decides to tell his story. A target audience of readers Let's think for a moment about readers: they are the recipients of our stories. What stories do they want to read? If I have to tell the truth, I have serious difficulty understanding whether a novel might interest me or not if I don't immediately recognize its literary genre. For me, reading varies as my mood changes.