First - the assumption that readers don't have to work at other types of fiction. For SF and fantasy there are protocols that are more work - but you have to be willing to engage with the work. Your books are excellent examples of exactly that.
In reading your books the reader has to be willing to move into the world you have created. Most readers of litfic aren't competent to do that. They are lazy about that stuff.
The second point I'm going to riff off of mtlawson - but I've seen this a lot of places. I read to go interesting places I can't go any other way. It isn't about getting away from here, it's about going someplace else interesting. It may even be depressing and upsetting, but I'm going to someplace not escaping.
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Date: 2010-08-31 12:28 pm (UTC)First - the assumption that readers don't have to work at other types of fiction. For SF and fantasy there are protocols that are more work - but you have to be willing to engage with the work. Your books are excellent examples of exactly that.
In reading your books the reader has to be willing to move into the world you have created. Most readers of litfic aren't competent to do that. They are lazy about that stuff.
The second point I'm going to riff off of mtlawson - but I've seen this a lot of places. I read to go interesting places I can't go any other way. It isn't about getting away from here, it's about going someplace else interesting. It may even be depressing and upsetting, but I'm going to someplace not escaping.