A 3-Point Commentary on the Latest Short Fiction Kerfuffle [EDITED]

[snurri]

1. Writing is hard.

2. You get no points for doing your best.

3. Readers award no points for difficulty. (Suggested by Greg van Eekhout.)

Comments

[snurri.livejournal.com]

True. I wonder, though, if you aren't onto something anyway. I often have things in my stories that I'm not sure I can entirely justify, but which just seem to belong, and a lot of the works I really enjoy do the same. The exemplar, to me, is the Mike Yanagita scene in "Fargo"; in a lot of ways it doesn't belong there, but it also kind of perfects the film.

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

That's a very interesting example and I'm going to have to think about this more now.