On Sat, 14 Dec 1996 22:39:44 -0600 (CST), Numbski wrote:

I was simply curious as to which writing style people prefer around here,
script style, or novel?  I've seen both done EXTREMELY well.

Personally I tend to prefer reading the prose stories over scripts. A
writer can do a lot more with prose fiction than he/she can in a
script. Other people whose opinions I've read seem to prefer novelized
prose to scripts generally. Prose stories tend to do better in the
best of rec.arts.anime.creative voting too.

On the other hand, as a writer, writing prose is a lot more work than
doing a script. While narrative prose writing is a great way to tell
any story, scripts do work pretty well for certain genres. So there is
nothing wrong IMHO with a particular story being done as a script if
the writer feels that novelization wouldn't add much in the particular
case.

Just my $0.02...

Gary

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