Posted on 12/06/2006 6:15:27 AM PST by occu77
I'm gonna list what I consider to be the Greatest Weaknesses of Modern Authors, their writings, worldviews, methods of working, work produced, etc.
1. Little or No Real World Experience: Too many modern authors, writers, screenwriters (not to mention artists of all kinds) have little or no real world experience. They go to school to learn how to write, they spend their lives obsessing over writing, they spend most all of their free time writing or learning to write. Yet they never lived and have nothing to write about except what is spawned within their own imaginations. They spend all of their time creating fictional worlds because they have nothing to say about and have made no observations on the real world. How could they? They've never spent any time living in it. Writing about what they see in their own heads is the only accomplishment they've ever had or tried to have.
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Too many writers write from the experiences of other people (or worse, other writers), and that has led directly to literary fiction becoming the province of a tightly closed circle of New York gays and lesbians. ;)
That list encompasses far more than authors.
"Literary fiction" is involuted navel-gazing pap written by those who have nothing to say and no clue what a PLOT is.
Sadly, I agree with all of you guys.
I strongly suggest you stay away from the novels of Robbe-Grillet. You'll want to open a vein.
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