[ SECRET POST #2466 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2466 ⌋

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Comments

[thene]

Those weren't my words - I was quoting the first line of this subthread and explaining why I feel that line clearly refers to novels and novelists. Plays, poetry and academic writing are not generally referred to as 'stories'. The 'constantly inspired storyteller who never stops' stereotype is most often associated with novelists and obviously fails to reflect the full universe of people who write things that other people read.

Personally I think narrative is overrated and what matters is a) craft and b) do you have anything worth saying? and those metrics rather than 'stories' motivate my own writing. This approach doesn't seem particularly rare.

[(Anonymous)]

Writers can't stop writing even if want to. Stories are always popping in their heads.

Still don't see how that "clearly refers to novelists" to the exclusion (as you implied) of people who write short stories, plays, nonfiction and news articles. Also, if short fiction, plays, screenwriting are not "stories," what are they?

[thene]

In normal usage if someone says they're 'writing a story' that means either a traditional piece of fiction (of any length - I never said that short stories were not referred to as 'stories') or a news article. If someone's writing a play, poem or technical work, they would usually be specific about the form rather than saying 'I'm writing a story'. (I can imagine situations in which 'story' would be used for a play, film script, or narrative nonfiction piece of some kind but in general those are things that have stories rather than things that are simply referred to as being stories.) [ETA: just occurred to me that at the place I work, the articles we write are never referred to as 'stories', even when they are news pieces.]

I think there's a pretty clear slant here toward the stereotypical novel writer - many of whom do exist, but they're not the only writers who write. If you disagree, that's cool.