The manifesto’s tone is appropriate to my purpose—to liberate writer, story, and reader from the constraints of convention, and to promote counter-narratives. I cannot imagine why plot continues to encumber fiction. Once-silenced voices have expanded narrative possibilities. All fiction narratives must be given equal consideration (including narratives of destruction) to understand the complexity of shared existence.

Realism creates the illusion of a seamless stream of events. Is the structure of those events that is in question? A reader carries the long ingrained expectation for the storybook narrative. The writer of conventional fictional has some freedom to shake up the sjuzet, even complicate the timeline of events with sub-plots. However the writer must be prepared for the reader to question what is going on.