it's silly, but I'll say it anyway. Just because all the characters in a novel only sit, stand, crawl, sprawl, walk, slide and jog doesn't mean to say it's literary and not genre fiction. Obviously.
Well, you're saying these characters jog, rather than sprint. That already tells us something, doesn't it? Their maximum speed is 4-6 miles an hour. I'd say that rules out most of the genre fiction I've written about today. If the characters are always that slow, they're not in a those kinds of book. However, 'it's silly, but I'll say it anyway' could be the motto of the whole post. So this is definitely in spirit.
Velocity is an interesting test. My main characters only run when feeling fear or anger. Otherwise they walk or swim (mostly in a southerly direction). But they do travel in an Ekranoplan for almost an hour, so it's a relief to know they haven't escaped the speculative genre.
it's silly, but I'll say it anyway. Just because all the characters in a novel only sit, stand, crawl, sprawl, walk, slide and jog doesn't mean to say it's literary and not genre fiction. Obviously.
Well, you're saying these characters jog, rather than sprint. That already tells us something, doesn't it? Their maximum speed is 4-6 miles an hour. I'd say that rules out most of the genre fiction I've written about today. If the characters are always that slow, they're not in a those kinds of book. However, 'it's silly, but I'll say it anyway' could be the motto of the whole post. So this is definitely in spirit.
I wonder what speed the Red Queen and Alice eventually attained in their 'Through the Looking-Glass' race? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race?wprov=sfla1
Velocity is an interesting test. My main characters only run when feeling fear or anger. Otherwise they walk or swim (mostly in a southerly direction). But they do travel in an Ekranoplan for almost an hour, so it's a relief to know they haven't escaped the speculative genre.