It’s the Monthly Blog Hop for the Insecure Writers Support Group founded by Alex J. Cavanaugh.
The first Wednesday of every month, an optional question is announced that members can answer in their IWSG post. These questions may prompt you to share advice, insight, a personal experience, or even a story. Include your answer to the question in your IWSG post. Remember, the question optional.
The awesome co-hosts for the July 2 posting of the IWSG are Rebecca Douglass, Natalie Aguirre, Cathrina Constantine, and Louise Barbour!
July 2 question - Is there a genre you haven't tried writing in yet that you really want to try? If so, do you plan on trying it?
But I can think of one that I really, really don't want to write...
Literary fiction.
You know when the authors love to write ...
Loooooonnng sentences...
Using intricate prose, non-conventional structures...
Artistic liberties, and other means to lengthen paragraphs...
Until that paragraph takes up a whole page...
The kind of writing I need a shot of tequila to get me through...
Unlike commercial fiction when a cup of coffee or a beer will do.
I don’t know about other readers...
But my mind wanders after 15 seconds...
So when I'm halfway down the page...
I’m wondering, “why is this scene taking so long?”
And just so you know...
I’m not a literary fiction snob...
(are you sure?)
Because I have read literary fiction.
(when?)
But hey...
It's just my take.
So?
What about you?
Which do you prefer:Literary fiction? Commercial fiction? Or both?
And what new genre would like to write in that you haven’t so far?
Always,
Em-Musing
9 comments:
Agree! Was forced to read too many of those books in school and they were boring.
LOL! Yeah, that's not one of my loves, either. And True Crime? Can't do it. My compassion meter breaks.
I was forced to read literary fiction by my mom and by school - some of those books worked for me, many didn't. I have an English teaching degree, so I overdosed on literary fiction in college with way too much critical theory attached to it, and only read maybe one of those books a year now.
In my mind, it just depends on the book. I've read some literary fiction I've loved and some I've hated. Same for commercial fiction.
I'll own it - I am a snob. Can't stand it. Grapes of Wrath made me want to curl up and die.
LOL
I have the same thoughts about literary fiction.
I'm with you on literary fiction. Though some of what I read might fall into that category, much of it I find to not only have abstruse writing but a terribly dark view of the world. I like the kind of guaranteed upbeat ending of the cozy mystery. As for my own writing, I can't keep my inconvenient sense of humor under control long enough to write a "literary" short story, let alone a novel. And as soon as there's humor, it apparently is no longer "literary."
So true
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