Saturday, September 08, 2007

on text and discourse

From Alex Osias, LitCritters Manila member:

Great Story + Bad Discourse = Not Bad / Boring / Confusing Text
Great Story + Competent Discourse = Great Text
Great Story + Great Discourse = Fantastic Text

Bad Story + Bad Discourse = Blasphemous Text
Bad Story + Competent Discourse = Bad Text
Bad Story + Great Discourse = Not Bad / Entertaining / InterestingText

In other words, we still need a great story before actually trying to write one. Good news for skillful storytellers, bad news for...uhh... me.

Hehe. I am officially commiserating with Justine as we both attempt to finish a spec fic piece.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

ahaha. blasphemous text jud. yawaa bay. blasphemous na nga ko, blasphemous pa jud akong stories. ahahaha. makalingaw lagi ni xa. wala ra, just dropping by.

by the way, i'm making my online literary portfolio in www.wordpress.com but it's not done yet. wa pay unod. hehe. i'll give you the link pag human na. paghimo pud! ;p

michelle said...

wala pud ko mabutang dira.hehehe.=)