So I've heard about the vignette, the novella, the short story, and so on. But what in the world is a 'state of consciousness' fiction? And how does one go about writing it?
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"Truth is...the flutter of butterfly's wings that causes a storm on the other side of the world..." - N.C. Stormeye
Daughter of The Yellow Dragon - 2005 (Won, but was crap.)
Mistakes: First Year - 2006 (366 Words...Eugh)
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Nov 14, 2007 - 03 02
i've heard of stream of consciousness (had to do study that in 1st year) but state of consciousness is new to me...
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Nov 23, 2007 - 02 15
Yeah, it's stream, not state. What IS it anyway?
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Nov 27, 2007 - 01 21
you just write what's on the character's thoughts
it's like writing a fictional diary with the character narrating the story
sometimes, you can't understand what the character is talking about but that's okay since it's supposed to be that way
and sometimes, you just read a lot of repeating words and then they suddenly jump to another topic and then to another
and then there's the large wall of text with a lot of ellipses and comas
but they say writing this way is supposed to be deep and cool.... or maybe not... i dunno..... undecided..... (that's stream of consciousness, hehe)
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Jul 24, 2008 - 21 04
No offense, but it sounds like...well, a stream of drabble. I've never heard of "stream on consciousness" fiction before. Is it really a type of fiction made official? Or something contemporary writers are starting, like a fad?
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Jul 24, 2008 - 21 04
No offense, but it sounds like...well, a stream of drabble. I've never heard of "stream on consciousness" fiction before. Is it really a type of fiction made official? Or something contemporary writers are starting, like a fad?
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Jul 25, 2008 - 02 40
Stream of consciousness (not state) is, according to one of my lecture notes, a psychological method that externalizes thoughts. So basically, it's like a character rambling on and on. Good example of this are Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) and To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf).
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Aug 21, 2008 - 20 50
A character rambling on and on...? I have a question: does that mean that the plot develops while the writer maintains a first-person POV all throughout the story?