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RE: Arachnid Thoughts - The Ink Well Prompt #13

in The Ink Well3 years ago (edited)

You offer us Joyce, Faulkner and Dylan. I offer you Robbe-Grillet, who believed

the time had passed for novels to be about characters and individuals. (The Guardian).

You are welcome to thrash against the strictures of conventional form, as long as you do it intelligently. And here you do.

While many people think of short stories and novels as timeless, they're not. They evolved from something else. That evolution was organic, and it was also conscious rebellion. So, have at it. You do a good job of rattling the cage of expectations.

Thank you for posting this adventurous piece in the Ink Well community.

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Wonderful comment. I was overwhelmed by the list of suggestions, so I wrote something that was meant to be a bit overwhelming for the reader. And a bit of theory of writing woven into the meta. Again, I'm very grateful for the response. Thanks.