Well, you were saying that not even a movie that looked at it critically would be anything inspirational or whatever, and then you say that about critical work, and this after I say that my novel is critical of certain tropes or whatever it is I said. That's why I responded that way.
Yeah, for sure I don't think every novel achieves what you're talking about. I'm just saying that I don't think it's possible for a novel to be all response, no creation - it's still putting forth something, and that something might be totally trite and unthinking, and a good deal of what's created is exactly that, but something is still being produced. It might not transcend a factory level of "production," but... I guess you could debate what's more useful, putting forth something trite and cliched or being critical of something someone else has put out.
This is a line of argument that often goes along with fiction and criticism in the LJ community - writers are always going "instead of criticizing my work, why don't you write something yourself."
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Date: 2011-05-22 05:52 pm (UTC)Yeah, for sure I don't think every novel achieves what you're talking about. I'm just saying that I don't think it's possible for a novel to be all response, no creation - it's still putting forth something, and that something might be totally trite and unthinking, and a good deal of what's created is exactly that, but something is still being produced. It might not transcend a factory level of "production," but... I guess you could debate what's more useful, putting forth something trite and cliched or being critical of something someone else has put out.
This is a line of argument that often goes along with fiction and criticism in the LJ community - writers are always going "instead of criticizing my work, why don't you write something yourself."