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The Colony
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How to win a Booker...
Pick a subject, any subject, and hide it beneath a ton
of
quirky
style
and lots of lists of words thrown
randomly
red blue
together
fried fish
meaningfully
or meaninglessly, perhaps.
Don't forget to entirely omit the conventions of grammar and punctuation that have stood generations of great and immortal writers in good stead. Instead of "quotation marks", for example, why not simply indent the start of the sentence every time anyone is
cabbages
turnips
speaking?
And to ensure that your readers remember that your character is an artist, as well as randomly listing colours
beige
fluorescent orange
pink polka-dots
you could have a little quirk like having the character imagine himself ironically as a series of self-portraits.
Self-portrait I: rolling eyes at what passes for literature these days.
And there you go! Longlisted for sure, almost a certainty for shortlisting and, it being the Booker, quite probably the winner.
Abandoned at 10%.
Pick a subject, any subject, and hide it beneath a ton
of
quirky
style
and lots of lists of words thrown
randomly
red blue
together
fried fish
meaningfully
or meaninglessly, perhaps.
Don't forget to entirely omit the conventions of grammar and punctuation that have stood generations of great and immortal writers in good stead. Instead of "quotation marks", for example, why not simply indent the start of the sentence every time anyone is
cabbages
turnips
speaking?
And to ensure that your readers remember that your character is an artist, as well as randomly listing colours
beige
fluorescent orange
pink polka-dots
you could have a little quirk like having the character imagine himself ironically as a series of self-portraits.
Self-portrait I: rolling eyes at what passes for literature these days.
And there you go! Longlisted for sure, almost a certainty for shortlisting and, it being the Booker, quite probably the winner.
Abandoned at 10%.
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Haha, it's tempting... ;)
Oh. no, is my writing that bad?? ;)
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Quite easily. If the first bite tastes bad, who eats the entire meal? The "style" in which this book is written is enough to provoke bookish food-poisoning.
Haha, it's always nice to see that at least a few other people share unpopular opinions, isn't it? 😂
Haha, I'm not sure I made it far enough to get to that bit! I think it was when she started throwing in random "fried fish" that I decided I just couldn't... 😉