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He just loved the plot-driven stories, and found the episodic ones taxing.

What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

I like plot-driven novels, but the ones I really love I love because of their voices, not because of their stories.

What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

I like that distinction between episodic and plot-driven and all the implications that go with that.

What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

When I first started noticing the difference between episodic and plot-driven narratives, I described it as an opposition between stories in which character development predominated and stories in which events and their consequences dominated.

What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

I have not thought a great deal about episodic fiction in contrast to other kinds of fiction, except to note that fiction for young children tends to be very episodic but then shifts decisively to highly plot-driven in the middle grades and beyond.

What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

I also say that episodic narratives and plot-driven narratives are by no means mutually exclusive – as Huckleberry Finn shows.

What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

This would be a list for someone who loves literature and reading, but not necessarily genre books (which is a very different list than someone looking for plot-driven stories) 1.

What SF would you recommend to a non-reader? 2009

Interestingly, she felt most of the genre was plot-driven and was honestly looking for that kind of book, but I didn't restrict myself to that.

What SF would you recommend to a non-reader? 2009

Lilian – I absolutely agree that plot-driven is not in opposition to episodic narrative – those episodes are often all examples of self-contained mini-plots.

What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

As for the same old, well, that again is certainly not a necessary and inevitable consequence of the episodic, but it might be a tendency, as a tendency towards coincidence might, for instance, be more prevalent in the plot-driven.

What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room 2009