Forum Overview :: Cabaret Voltron :: Re: Uh...

[quote name="Choson"][quote name="mrs. johnson"]I'm going to disagree. My favorite serious writers, like Joyce, have this strange ability to insert pure meaning into stories. This is done, as far as I can tell, by telling a story, simple or not, with a structured style (which may seem loose and arbitrary) to limit the reader’s information intake. I’ve tried doing something similar, by creating simple stories, that are supposed to have meaning, but it usually turns out that they only have meaning to me. Like the one about the dude who is waiting for a bus. That had a specific purpose and reason, one I can’t really verbalize, but the readers just found it slightly absurd and boring. Using a straightforward style to create a meaningful story is difficult, especially in short stories, and I’m nowhere near creating novels. the mrs.[/quote] Joyce was an excellent technical writer, too, in the sense of being so aware of the rules that when he does break them, he does it very consciously (most obviously in Finnegan's Wake, but even in his more straightforward writing) -- as Fussbett and the other dude who corrected your horrendously redundant and grammatically fucked-up writing pointed out, you don't exactly have that grasp yet.[/quote]