The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.)
John GardnerTags: books writing fiction authors instruction craft craftsmanship pulp-fiction technique pulp how-to-write genre-fiction how-to-write-fiction low-brow
Life isn't a pulp novel, Joe, and death isn't either.
Lavie TidharTags: pulp
And also they’re just good escapist fun," Vivian said firmly, and Gill subsided beside her, giving an apologetic smile. "To read about these horrible things and know they never happened, and when you’re finished you can put down the book and take a deep breath and get on with your life. To know it’s fiction – "
"Pulp fiction," Gill said ...
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He told himself she wasn’t really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced in her make-up, something that kept her from fading clear of people when they wanted to be in the clear.
David GoodisTags: women fiction noir pulp dark-passage david-goodis
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