In other words we're sick to death of stories as boring as the lives of most writers, and we believe we're not the only ones. Subtlety is fine if it serves a story where something happens, but subtlety should never be the sole purpose of a story. W e're not too fond of the idea of lyrical or poetic prose, one of the greater oxymoronic abominations to be bandied about in the last fifty some odd years. Far too many writers are deaf to the very world they live in. We want to help revive fiction by making it pay more attention to the spoken word rather than the artifice of mediocre literature, that peep show where stereotypes, belabored similes, overt symbolism, cliches, pat phrases, and standard written english creep about.
W e tend to like writers who write about people unlike themselves.
Because we don't like people who talk about themselves all the time. We say, learn about something other than a. A nd, speaking of imagination. . . Don't answer that. Just know that we are trying our damndest not to be like that.