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- adjective Devoid of
narrative .
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Before MBT, my notebooks were (and continue to be) largely "narrativeless" (not a real word), a collection of "factoids" building the setting--this is my basic writing instinct and it has been going on for 15 years now, lots and lots of ideas jotted in those vaunted notebooks--so many I forget them and have to remind myself.
Archive 2008-11-01 a. fortis 2008
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Before MBT, my notebooks were (and continue to be) largely "narrativeless" (not a real word), a collection of "factoids" building the setting--this is my basic writing instinct and it has been going on for 15 years now, lots and lots of ideas jotted in those vaunted notebooks--so many I forget them and have to remind myself.
The WritingYA Weblog: Winter Blog Blast Tour, Day Two: D.M. Cornish a. fortis 2008
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Pleased that This is Me, Jack Vance! is on best related, but it seems to me it's probably more a sentimental choice than anything -- Vance is a wonderful character, and I enjoyed reading the book for what it was, a narrativeless series of amusing or interesting vignettes more-or-less chronologically in order.
Hugo Nominations grrm 2010
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The New History and the Old (1987) was an outright attack on Marxist determinism, quanto-history, and psychohistory as well as other types of narrativeless “history with the politics left out.”
Gertrude Himmelfarb. 2009
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47 Morvern Callar - Dreamy, almost narrativeless follow up to Ratcatcher from Lynne Ramsey.
Books: 2005 kotoki 2005
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