Future Format Adaptations of the Novel.

 I prefer e-books over paper since I can read them in the dark and take a library with me in a pocket among other reason. Audio books are good. I suppose AI live streams reading books to 'readers and adjusting interactively as the 'reader' tells it to; for example, to slow down or speed up, answer questions about the book, talk about it etc. 

Perhaps 'readers; will be able to interact with books and talk to characters as the story evolves as if they were participating in the narrative. Eventually that would develop into video books that are live and develop on the foundation of an author's plot and writing yet that become completely malleable for the AI to synergize and adapt for a reader's individual amusement- differing for each reader. The market will attract authors toward producing books formats that byers find most the entertaining.

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On another topic. If its true that micro-plastics are in every American brain to the amount of seven plastic bottle caps worth it can't be worth being concerned about NPR support for the Democrat Party disappearing. It went downhill even before Bob Edwards was fired. NPR might have been trying to create woke plastic hippies.

Refining Writing Art; Form vs Function

 There are several ways of viewing the matter of Form vs function. The question for balancing creativity versus composition applies in many fields including writing fiction. To some form is all important; aesthetics are what matter. For others function is the essential purpose of building a story, building or whatever.

Solzhenitsyn's 'The Seventh Circle's fulfilled a purpose with expository writing through fiction of explaining life in the gulag for intellectuals. A philosopher writing science fiction would have a purpose- the function being invaluable and the form secondary. Plato's book The Republic, is logical analysis going so far in describing the realm of forms that it may be regard as science fiction twenty-three hundred years before Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein. Like Sartre, Plato's prose- the syntagmatic axis, were flawless.

Without function and purpose that is interesting and edifying a novel is like an electric car without a battery. The paradigmatic axis need be built into a story as the chassis. One may produce beautiful meaningless verbiage without it. Build the story with a purpose and use the editing features described  others of rough draft and subsequent stages of refinement.  It is quite difficult to infuse purpose into a story with editing.