tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497164028438533435.post6803194809549557619..comments2023-11-14T21:31:35.805-06:00Comments on J.F. Juzwik's Blog: DO YOU FOLLOW THE RULES WHEN YOU WRITE CRIME FICTION/NOIR?Joycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03275503653927579472noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497164028438533435.post-16650754151491598872011-05-14T12:55:48.348-05:002011-05-14T12:55:48.348-05:00Thomas, I agree. What does everyone else do? Oka...Thomas, I agree. What does everyone else do? Okay. Now I know what NOT to do. Be original. Always.Joycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03275503653927579472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497164028438533435.post-43204692908657383932011-05-14T12:53:59.931-05:002011-05-14T12:53:59.931-05:00Veronica, Well said. Suggestions can be beneficia...Veronica, Well said. Suggestions can be beneficial, but we should listen, then take them or leave them. Writing must come from within the writer--nowhere else.Joycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03275503653927579472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497164028438533435.post-83977079518223424572011-05-14T12:51:57.692-05:002011-05-14T12:51:57.692-05:00David, I totally agree. If all stories followed t...David, I totally agree. If all stories followed the same plotlines, employed the same characters with the same traits, etc., what's the point? Where's the delightful twists and turns and surprises we all look forward to reading and writing?Joycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03275503653927579472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497164028438533435.post-88883449808030121162011-05-14T12:50:13.700-05:002011-05-14T12:50:13.700-05:00Richard, Thanks for your ocmments. Guidelines can...Richard, Thanks for your ocmments. Guidelines can be helpful, but how can there be rules governing one's imagination and creativity? There are so many paths a story can follow, we must let it follow them and not be hampered by outside influences.Joycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03275503653927579472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497164028438533435.post-25684385203129058622011-05-04T10:45:51.823-05:002011-05-04T10:45:51.823-05:00It's good to know the rules so you can break t...It's good to know the rules so you can break them properly.Thomas Pluckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17008022962076648740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497164028438533435.post-1862897697150562132011-04-26T00:49:33.304-05:002011-04-26T00:49:33.304-05:00Great article, Joyce. Very informative... I shall...Great article, Joyce. Very informative... I shall have to bookmark this.<br /><br />In writing, I would say this about rules... They might best be thought of as a "starting point", a suggestion even... to be adapted to each individual writer, bending and stretching to a given situation... what will will work for one writer for a particular story, might not for another.. or, might need some subtle (or not so subtle) alteration. Just as one size does not fit all, with respect to clothing, neither can one rule fit all writers. Sometimes we must bring out the shears and pins.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13430872985988041256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497164028438533435.post-71483582230631994002011-04-25T12:49:46.342-05:002011-04-25T12:49:46.342-05:00Great post, Joyce. Like you said about my poem - ...Great post, Joyce. Like you said about my poem - life would be miserable if we didn't question things - surely the same would go for rules, so Rules Are Meant To Be Broken. I agree wholeheartedly with your take on them but then again someone one day will write the perfect novel by breaking every single one of them.<br /><br />Best,<br />David.David Barberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00231973272530266336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497164028438533435.post-45487245560480583202011-04-25T11:28:18.529-05:002011-04-25T11:28:18.529-05:00Joyce I agree with every one of your observations ...Joyce I agree with every one of your observations which is no surprise because you are an experienced author and a highly perceptive woman. I think the rules are good on the whole but the best novels break or bend them. Look at Dostoyevsky's 'Crime And Punishment' perhaps the first great crime novel in which we know exactly who the killer is. It is more a whydunnit. There are so many ways of making it new. My favourite rule is Elmore Leonard's when re reading your stories cut out the boring bits he says.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com