Re: [bomp] Directors writing fiction

[Blair Buscareno <blairb@xxxxxxx>]

jumpinginthenight wrote:

>Ohh, wrong use of "pulp novel." Pulp novel means the full-length (30,000 word?) fiction that appeared in 1930s & '40s newsstand magazines printed on cheap pulpwood. They were pretty much dead by the '50s, killed by paperbacks as well as TV & comic books [which all used the same genres: Westerns, mystery, war, adventure, masked avengers, science fiction].  
>  just cause some hit movie came along doesn't mean we suddenly throw out 70 years of accepted definition.
>

I'm not so sure about that.  Words/phrases do, after all, get redefined 
over time. 

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