Thoughts from "The Art of Fiction" by Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand's Art of Fiction is an appalling book... it shows how NOT to write fiction - her militant adherance to a sort of Aristotelian aesthetics is precisely why her own fiction comes across as wooden and obvious. In discussing the complexity of voices in the works of writers like Dostoevsky and Dickens, Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin coined the term "heteroglossia," describing the rich polyphony in the novel. Ayn Rand's novels, by contrast are monoglossal and tiresomely pedantic.
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Don't forget Mickey Spillane, Terry Goodkind, or Vince Flynn for some more modern authors.
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On the character with green tennis shoes: For one thing, a quirky detail aids memory. But also, creating a character in this manner might be a way for a writer, who doesn't know what abstractions he wants to write about, to build up to them using some concretes of his own. It is by no means a polished character ready to plop into a novel, but it gets you from absolutely nothing, to a couple of concretes, which should lead to a decent abstraction that you can kick around in your writing.
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Thanks. I have read Atlas Shrugged. I think I will read that again as well as the others you have mentioned. I enjoy your vids, heep up the good work.
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Just a great damn video. I don't think this is still one I paid for, but I hope so.
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Just a great damn video
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Very educational! What's the song playing in the background?
GamblerJustice 2 years ago
" What's the song playing in the background?"
Mozart something or other.
MrCropper 2 years ago
Mr. Cropper, which college and undergraduation you took?
alonelychild 2 years ago
"Mr. Cropper, which college and undergraduation you took?"
I dropped out after 4 years of full-time college, but I majored in History and Philosophy, changing to Early Childhood Education my last year. Was that the question?...
MrCropper 2 years ago
What are some examples of good fiction?
StuartGalore 2 years ago
"What are some examples of good fiction?"
NOT Faulkner or Fitzgerald (or Hemingway). They're all pithle.
Try Victor Hugo, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche's "Zarathustra" and Rand's writings, as well as the plays of Henrik Ibsen... and some others I'll think of later.
MrCropper 2 years ago