Not a problem. I'm not very coherent on that subject. My concept of mode includes what you're talking about, what kind of things can be real, and what kind of story it is, but it also includes things that are usually classified under style (I think) when they're talked about at all, such as where the narrator is standing and how seriously the text takes itself (and the reality of its secondary world) and permissable tone and so on... and I guess things that people class under structure too, like the way I alternate POVs in the Small Change books.
Mode is very important to me, because the thing I have to have and without which I can't start. It's not enough, but it's essential.
It's like a set of stops for an organ that control all this different stuff and then you can go forward with the tune.
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Date: 2009-03-13 01:27 pm (UTC)Mode is very important to me, because the thing I have to have and without which I can't start. It's not enough, but it's essential.
It's like a set of stops for an organ that control all this different stuff and then you can go forward with the tune.