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I've always shied from the idea of genrizing my work in such a tight-knit little marketing device. Does everything have to fit in a fucking box? And if it does, let the box-makers figure it out (if possible).
I continue to REFUSE to divorce language from story. They're both components of the same thing. What you're saying is on par with how you say it; they work together. To me, all the reader has is your words, so yeah, all that sentence-level stuff has an effect, as does the use of plot archs and all that. Otherwise you'd just inject an image into their brains with a needle, and there'd be no use for language.
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I hate this question. My Creative Writing professor turned me on to "literary" novels and I haven't read any other thing since. But, as a writer, I prefer to have a plot in my sentence-level crafted fiction or else I may alienate some readers. Just a fact. A lot of people don't want to think when they read, they want to escape. It's a hard line to straddle. I don't know. I like me some literary eye candy. Sorry.