/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4868983]

Rank the following in order of importance in fiction (the following is mine):

1. Characters
2. Plot
3. Mechanics
4. Theme
5. Dialogue (when necessary)

[Anonymous No.4868998]

>Not appreciating good dialogue

[Anonymous No.4869001]

highest to lowest: dialogue, themes, characters, plot, mechanics (dunno what that is)

muh stream of consciousness

[Anonymous No.4869006]

>>4869001
By mechanics I meant like writing style/technical writing aspects

[Anonymous No.4869013]

>>4868983
Are you from /v/? /v/irgins seem really fond of this conversation format.

[Anonymous No.4869018]

>>4869006
haha, in that case it's highest of course, it's the material
and there's no art without material resistance
t. chandler

[Anonymous No.4869028]

>>4868983
0/10 if you're serious, 7/10-u-sure-fooled-me-lol if you're not.

[Anonymous No.4869037]

>>4869028
Your post is as bad as OPs

[Anonymous No.4869058]

>>4868983
1 Dialogue
2 Theme (assuming this includes atmosphere, the environment)
3 Mechanics (assuming this includes the use of color and description, in aid of the atmosphere and environment)
4 Plot
5 Whether dust jacket looks cool
6 Cool title
7 How nutritious the binding would be if I were trapped on a deserted island and had to eat the book to stay alive
8 Characters

[Anonymous No.4869065]

>the city of this thread
Plot, theme, etc are meaningless without characters to forward and relate them

[Anonymous No.4869074]

>>4869065
Kafka would like a word with you.

[Anonymous No.4869088]

>>4869074
>Kafka

[Anonymous No.4869097]

>>4869074
OP is wrong but
>Kafka

[Anonymous No.4869108]

1. Mechanics
2. Theme
3. Plot
4. Characters
5. Dialogue

I'd put dialogues first if it were about movies or dramatic plays, but I believe they're not that important in literature.

[Anonymous No.4869122]

>>4869074
>Kafka

[Anonymous No.4869143]

>>4869074
>Kafka

[Anonymous No.4869207]

>>4868998
highest priority to lowest

>Theme
>Mechanics
>Characters
>Plot
>Dialogue

I love dialogue but it's not just that important.
It can even be ignored.

[Anonymous No.4869218]

>>4869065
>i read genre and genre only

[Anonymous No.4869222]

>>4869088
>>4869097
>>4869122
>>4869143

What is with the Kafka hate?

[Anonymous No.4869269]

>>4869222
samefagging

[Anonymous No.4871209]

>>4868983
1.Theme
2.Mechanics
3.Characters
4.Plot
5.Dialogue

[Anonymous No.4871213]

>Mechanics
>Characters (I don't have to relate to them)
>Theme
>Plot
>Dialogue

[Anonymous No.4871228]

>>4869006
style is hardly mechanical.

i can't read books with bad prose.

[Anonymous No.4871293]

>Rank the following in order of importance to yourself

1) Characters
2) Dialogue
3) Mechanics
4) Plot
5) Theme

Mechanics: Spelling, punctuation, capitalization, etc.

I'm a very forgiving reader. Gimmie the characters and the dialogue, gimmie a play with minimal scene descriptions, or a script - I'm good. There is a limit though; fan-fiction typically fails me here.

Bust you ass over the first three and what you have may not be art, but you'll have some readers at least.

Nail the next two and you're on your way to claiming your status as a writer, and well on the trail of something called art.

>Rank the following in order of importance in fiction

I ... can't.

[Anonymous No.4871339]

Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.4871419]

>>4868983
None of you (as of me writing this) have put plot first. This is why you'll find representation for that manuscript you've been editing the first chapter of for more than year.

1) Plot
2) Character + Dialogue: tied because dialogue is essentially a tool used for either character or plot.
3) "Mechanics", though I would say form.
4) Theme

[Anonymous No.4871763]

>>4871339
1. Theme
2. Characters
3. Mechanics
4. Dialogue
5. Length
6. Plot
99. Descriptions

[Anonymous No.4871790]

>>4871209
The only true choice.