The Fault in our Shades of Networked Narratives

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 In writerscafe.org its very easy to find networked narratives. Networked narratives are almost all that writers know how to write and write well, because thanks to the media, its pretty much shoved down our throats. Some writers choose to swallow and other writers, like myself just don’t want it in our mouths. Networked narratives that are going around writerscafe.org like wildfire are writers of young adult books that are yet to be published and writers of short stories based on John Green Books and other popular writers such as EL.James. Nowadays in any writers forum, the key to a popular story is for two teens in love with a complication that’s almost impossible to over come, such as cancer (what up The Fault in our Stars reference!) or that the lovers families don’t approve of their love, or they’re a silly girl wrapped up in the twisted webs of Christian Gray.

For another example, erotica in writerscafe.org is just as universal. No thanks to EL. James and her poor writing skills. As we all know, 50 Shades of Grey was a fan fiction of Twilight. (two bad things don’t equal a good thing, people!) So, thanks to EL.James (well not just her, but lets blame her because we can) erotica and erotic fanfiction are the second and third most popular genre to write about in writerscafe.org and pretty much on every writing forum.

So, for networked narrative, why is genre important? I believe this quote from the BA1002 Week 6 Lecture Slides best suit this explanation; “Genres actively generate and shape our knowledge of the world. Genres organise verbal and non-verbal discourse and texts are at once shaped by genre and are shaped by it.” (Frow, John, 2013)

Reference list

BA1002 Lecture Notes, week 6, slide 5 (Frow, John, 2013)

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