By William Sloane
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It is always entertaining or useful, or both. It is not a puzzle, or a sermon, or executed by a superior person for inferiors. What is written skillfully is apt to be good writing. Great writing and writers about greatness have assumed greatness in their readers. Shakespeare assumes the king and the magician and the coward and the hero in everyone. The skill and the desire to reach the reader are what carry the greatness, if it exists. Two BETWEEN WRITER AND READER Since books are my professional concern, and a lifelong one, it would be strange indeed if I did not have some pronounced opinions about literature.
At worst this can mean wanting to improve the reader. At best, it means a sharing so full that at the end, the experience belongs both to the writer who wrote it in his mind 42 THE CRAFT OF WRITING and then outwardly to the reader, and to the reader who received it through fearfully abstract symbols and reproduced it in his own imagination. It is this collaboration that completes the experience. Three FICTION AND THE MEANS OF PERCEPTION The disciplines of fiction are few in number, but they are all basic, and not one of them is thoroughly accepted or understood by unsuccessful writers of fiction.
What is going to happen? Viewed in this rather general light a novel no longer has to have what used to be called plot. It does have to have two things that serve the same function. It has to have narrative and structure. These two elements should not exist as separate and disparate ingredients. They are utterly fused from beginning to end. We have all been bored to distraction by people who tell stories badly. " This tells us a lot about how the auditor or reader receives a story. He wants a structure, and the first part of the structure that he wants is a beginning.