| Author | Message | ||
     Rhysaurus (Rhysaurus) Username: Rhysaurus Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 212.219.233.223 |
I have been wondering for a long while whether a precise chemistry of genres is possible. For example, mackinawite is an iron nickel sulfide mineral with the following formula: (Fe,Ni)1 + xS. Small amounts are pyrophoric: they spontaneously combust in air... What might happen if a writer blends (for instance) fantasy with realism with metafiction in comparable amounts in an analogous formula? Will there be some sort of story-detonation (metaphorical of course)? This idea fascinates me. I'm not talking about simple 'blind' fusions (Young Frankenstein blended horror with comedy). I'm talking about a PRECISE chemistry of genres... Any thoughts? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.155.107.43 |
Or alchemy? I think I've been trying to do this. Not vocalised it yet, though. Joe Meek's Telstar is better without voices. | ||
| Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker) Username: Stephen_theaker Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 92.232.184.206 |
You mean like Jason X, Rhys? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.19.207 |
I've no idea, Rhys - my approach to writing is too intuitive, I think. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.126 |
>>>Joe Meek's Telstar is better without voices. Des, the guy who lives in the apartment above me was a member of The Tornadoes. Ray Randall, he's called. He's a cunt. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.155.107.43 |
Good job he didn't sing on it then with his voice. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.126 |
His voice? As opposed to what? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.155.107.43 |
And indeed he wasn't yet in the group when they did Telstar, according to Wikipedia. | ||
| Rhysaurus (Rhysaurus) Username: Rhysaurus Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 212.219.233.223 |
Wasn't Heinz in the Tornadoes too? He had 57 isotopes apparently, Heinz did. (Subtly returning the conversation to chemistry...) | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.155.107.43 |
Yes, Heinz was in the group when they did Telstar, and I think RR replaced him. | ||
| Rhysaurus (Rhysaurus) Username: Rhysaurus Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 212.219.233.223 |
Beanz Meanz Heinz... Telestar means geostationary communication possibilities... Coincidence? I think not. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
>>my approach to writing is too intuitive, I think.<< That would sum it up for me from a reader's perspective (rather than a writer's perspective). For me, there's a "magic" (chemistry? alchemy?) which occurs when what the writer has put onto paper somehow creates a "wow" reaction in the reader's imagination/mind. That's chemistry (or alchemy?) in writing as far as I'm concerned. Put the writer and the reader together and see what kind of reaction you get ... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.155.107.43 |
Yes, Caroline, I think you're right - the chemistry is between reader and writer in synergy rather than between seedbeds of meticulously measured elements within the author alone. |