![]() When one first encounters Cormac McCarthy’s taste for absconding with punctuation, there will be an almost instant evaluation: Is the praise this author has so far garnered enough to override my desire to read a book that seems to be making things more difficult for me for no evident reason? Many American readers, when confronted with the right-to-left reading format and some of the stylistic differences encountered in much of the manga imports 1 1 I do realize that manga shouldn’t actually be considered experimentation. ![]() It takes a reader a special kind of patience or motivation to get past textual idiosyncrasies. the way everyone else does it) is a facile means to lose an audience. Whether in narrative or in style or in form, straying from best practice (i.e. ![]() There’s a reason Robert McKee’s Story is a popular introduction to writing stories that people will want to read: we, as a people, prefer for our books and films to play out in ways that are familiar, worn, and true. ![]() This isn’t so much a bad thing as it is merely a description of The Way Things Are. So much of what we encounter in our common experience of the literary world is-despite well-fashioned pretenses otherwise-regurgitated formula. Even when the ultimate product of one’s creative exercise is by most standards a failure, the mere fact of the creator’s attempt to forge a virgin path instills their resultant work with something magical. ![]()
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