" A story that focuses strongly on the emotions and the emotional relationships between the characters, rather than on the 'outside' plot they're moving through, is...what?"
Er. . . it's literature. No really, it is.
This sort of emphasis on the interior life of characters only seems unusual because it is cropping up in genre fiction. The thing is that really well-read and smart writers are invading various genres and they aren't afraid to bring the good tools from the literary toolbox along with them.
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Whos' afraid of Virinia Woolf?
Date: 2006-12-19 07:01 pm (UTC)Er. . . it's literature. No really, it is.
This sort of emphasis on the interior life of characters only seems unusual because it is cropping up in genre fiction. The thing is that really well-read and smart writers are invading various genres and they aren't afraid to bring the good tools from the literary toolbox along with them.