Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(14)
Bad literary adaptations are all alike, but every successful literary adaptation succeeds in its own way.
Again, we can see why bad literary fiction is so much more annoying than bad genre.
This is not a bad literary adaptation; it is too handsomely shot and Britishly acted to warrant such strong condemnation.
Bad literary fiction, on the other hand, is mostly without such fallback positions and is therefore a whole lot worse.
This has nothing to do with genre - bad mysteries are just as common as bad literary novels.
"I didn't want to become a bad literary character, you know?" Cronin's first two novels are lovely, in a muted way.
Similar(46)
From that perspective the Austen Project is self-evidently bad for literary culture.
So it might be refreshing to take a turn round some imperfect parents in fiction: here we go with the bad mothers' literary litany.
I had an early book savaged by an older Irish poet, and Beckett was relentless: 'Don't answer, they're not worth it.' He did not like bad manners, literary or otherwise, and regarded them as endemic to the great Hibernian bog.
Truth is, literary bad boys are far from new.
But Murong Xuecun, China's latest literary bad boy, made the line censor-friendly by changing "tanks" to "tractors".
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com