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Originally Posted by dadioflex
I've been reading down this thread, got to here and I don't think I need to go on.
A lot of old school pulp was written, absent inspiration, by authors who were so steeped in the background to their genre that they could construct endless deviations on a theme. And their readers were perfectly happy with that.
As an exercise it would be interesting to see how good a novel could be created using only stock situations and generic dialogue.
Hmm. That may even be the future of novels, when the machines take over.
Anyway, peace out. SLJ /thread
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I'm sure Steven can speak for himself but I really don't think you have gleaned what he means.