>>> Item number 23848 from WRITERS LOG9401B --- (20 records) ----- <<< Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 16:58:49 JST Reply-To: WRITERS Sender: WRITERS From: Mike Barker Subject: TECH: Serious Work? A Quote "I think we all loathe the expressions _serious novel_ and _serious writer_, with the loaded implications that the wordworker who stresses action, the sheerly imaginative, or the fully nonexistent is somehow playing at writing and decidedly less talented. Worse, _mainstream_ and _serious story_ are often meant to convey that fantasists, detective story writers, and so on are less concerned with the important things." (p. 26) (from the essay "Plotting as Your Power Source" by J.N. Williamson) How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction Ed. J.N. Williamson 1987, Writer's Digest Books ISBN 0-89879-270-3