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What are the characteristics of a Southern Gothic novel? How
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What are the characteristics of a Southern Gothic novel? How to write one?
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>>7576451
The Grotesque
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>belief in archetype as something that actually exists, rather than a construction by pseuds
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>>7576472
If something has been said or written, in a sense, it already exists
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Do you live in the south? If not, you don't understand us, don't write about us until you do.
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>>7576750
No, I don't live there. I'm not even 'murican, I just love the phrase Southern Gothic and wanna steal elements from there, to a novel of mine, which plays in my balkans shithole of a country
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>>7576750
>>7576933
From what I understand about it, it is pretty adaptable to this place (sorry, I left it off)
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>>7576953
Okay, in that case have an intimate portrayal of the people that live where you are. Have them do things that are on the fringe of society or take them to more esoteric places.

Consistently, examine death throughout.

Also, give a very subtle hint to some kind of mystical force. Not necessarily God or Cthulu, but something that is not apart of our reality, like the stream of conscious babbling of a dead person.
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>>7577073
Okay, thanks m8
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>>7577073
>the only faulkner i read was as i lay dying
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>>7577093
>I make assumptions based on five sentences
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>>7576451
If you have to ask you'll never know

Carpet bagger scum
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