I’m becoming interested in discussing this #quikfic genre. It has me re-thinking the meaning of “story.” I’d be interested in your analytic ideas on this, if you’re inclined to that. I know I’m more interested in analysis than most people.
To me, #quikfic 25 is less a story than a prose poem, and endlessly contemplatable as a poem:
When the sun went down, her clothes came off. Night after night, I sketched her in the darkness until I finally got it right.
It fires the imagination in so many directions, all the trajectories seemingly aimed at the same focus, that it works on me more as a poem than as a story, although it does have a past, present, and future. Because the past, present, and future of that sentence are so ambiguous, yet (for me) achieve the same ultimate emotional effect, there is no loss on second reading owing to “already knowing the ending.”
On the other hand, #quikfic 26 here seems like a spare outline for a much longer story, but not one with many ambiguities, and one which (for me) would require a lot more characterization and probably setting to achieve an emotional impact.
22’s plot is a pun.
But 21 is like a poem to me, though quieter in tone than today’s:
I met her in an art gallery and fell in love. Somewhere near The Persistence of Memory, she melted into the arms of another man.
What do you think about this? What is a story and what is a poem? I’m assuming we can agree that poems can exist outside verse form.
I’m becoming interested in discussing this #quikfic genre. It has me re-thinking the meaning of “story.” I’d be interested in your analytic ideas on this, if you’re inclined to that. I know I’m more interested in analysis than most people.
To me, #quikfic 25 is less a story than a prose poem, and endlessly contemplatable as a poem:
It fires the imagination in so many directions, all the trajectories seemingly aimed at the same focus, that it works on me more as a poem than as a story, although it does have a past, present, and future. Because the past, present, and future of that sentence are so ambiguous, yet (for me) achieve the same ultimate emotional effect, there is no loss on second reading owing to “already knowing the ending.”
On the other hand, #quikfic 26 here seems like a spare outline for a much longer story, but not one with many ambiguities, and one which (for me) would require a lot more characterization and probably setting to achieve an emotional impact.
22’s plot is a pun.
But 21 is like a poem to me, though quieter in tone than today’s:
What do you think about this? What is a story and what is a poem? I’m assuming we can agree that poems can exist outside verse form.
By “today’s,” I mean #25.