{"id":148,"date":"2021-01-10T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nordberg.org.uk\/?p=148"},"modified":"2023-07-10T09:18:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T09:18:06","slug":"category-choice-in-creative-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nordberg.org.uk\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Category choice in creative writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordberg.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149\" width=\"138\" height=\"197\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The publishing world for fiction is driven not just by what is novel about a novel, but even more by what other novels a novel is like. That is, by what&#8217;s the same, not what&#8217;s different. In this paper, I examine how category arise. Drawing on the theory of heuristics and bias, the paper &#8211; published in the journal <em>New Writing<\/em> &#8211; shows how the many layers of the industry create dichotomies, based on the availability of a heuristic to the reader, how well the work represents the type, and how the author can create novelty by confounding the heuristic and its bias by shifting the anchor points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three dichotomies emerge from the analysis, with parallels but also differences, corresponding to three layers of the industry:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<strong>Plot-led vs. character-led<\/strong>&#8221; &#8211; mainly in the domain of writing coaches<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<strong>Genre vs. literary<\/strong>&#8220;- mainly in the domain of mainstream criticism, publishers, agents and editors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<strong>Philosophical vs. psychological<\/strong>&#8221; &#8211; mainly in the domain of academic criticism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Philosophical fiction is often called the <em>novel of ideas<\/em>. Indeed, Wikipedia automatically re-routes <em>novel of ideas<\/em> to <em>philosophical fiction<\/em>. I&#8217;ll have more to say about that category in other papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The publishing world for fiction is driven not just by what is novel about a novel, but even more by what other novels a novel is like. That is, by what&#8217;s the same, not what&#8217;s different. In this paper, I examine how category arise. Drawing on the theory of heuristics and bias, the paper &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nordberg.org.uk\/?p=148\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Category choice in creative writing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[34,33,31,32],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-anchor-points","tag-heuristics","tag-literature","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nordberg.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nordberg.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nordberg.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordberg.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordberg.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordberg.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordberg.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nordberg.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordberg.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nordberg.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}