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After a point . . .

 

                                    

Did you have to dissect a frog in your biology class? If science wasn't your forte, after a point, looking at the innards of an amphibian didn't further your education about the overall workings of the only body you were interested in understanding: yours or that cute guy's with the longish hair and hazel eyes or the pretty girl with the long dark curls and shapely frame.

Some writers/authors need to dissect novels to fully contemplate their "majesty", to amplify their craft, to understand the inner workings of all kinds of fiction. The fact that they must have a beginning, middle, and end is simply not enough to sustain their inquiries concerning the movement, sustenance, and dichotomy of genres, styles, voices, and methodology.

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Valuable as the understanding can be, all that knowledge can also graduate – or degenerate – into facts and figures and opinions. In the end stories will be what they are, written in structures that cling to tradition or venturing into dynamic formula-breaching experiences. Either way presents wonderful opportunities for readers to engage in written words.

After a point, the dissection doesn't matter anymore. At least to me . . .

Father, you are the One who brings truth and understanding. I'm desperate for you. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.  

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  1. BK Jackson Avatar
    BK Jackson

    You know I read books that knock my socks off (they don’t come that often) and think to myself “I need to read that again so I can dissect it and see why it worked so well for me.”
    But in the end, I never go back and re-read it. I wonder if there’s still part of me that still thinks a knock-my-socks-off book is magic and that trying to dissect it would ruin the experience for me.

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  2. Nicole Avatar
    Nicole

    I suppose it’s our makeup that requires we examine something until we’re satisfied we’ve discovered every hidden secret or method. For me, entertainment, meaningful or not, is something I want to “experience” not “dissect” until as you said the “magic” has disappeared and been replaced with a school session. I’m an absorber anyway. If I experience a novel at the intellectual level but have no spiritual or emotional attachment, chances are the experience was flat. Combine the three dimensions with writing that appeals to me, and it potentially brings the Wow-factor.

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