I think about the shape of stories a fair bit (indeed, I just sent a friend beta comments that said, basically, "this isn't shaped like a novel"), but I don't read at all the same way you do--as witness our different reactions to Dortmunder, and my inability to see the plot of _Tiassa_ until you explained it. So it's not just reading for structure, it's a certain kind of reading for structure--maybe it's that you're building as you go whereas I'm not sure I do that consciously while reading as opposed to in reflecting afterward?
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Date: 2014-10-03 07:53 pm (UTC)I think about the shape of stories a fair bit (indeed, I just sent a friend beta comments that said, basically, "this isn't shaped like a novel"), but I don't read at all the same way you do--as witness our different reactions to Dortmunder, and my inability to see the plot of _Tiassa_ until you explained it. So it's not just reading for structure, it's a certain kind of reading for structure--maybe it's that you're building as you go whereas I'm not sure I do that consciously while reading as opposed to in reflecting afterward?