grim dark and noble bright

20/4/2018

If one can write grim dark or noble bright, then why can’t I write other combos?

• [x] grim dark
• [x] noble bright
• [ ] grim bright
• [ ] noble dark
• [ ] dark bright
• [ ] noble grim (grim noble)

I’m not certain this is a four-variable combinatoric. If each of grim, dark, noble, and bright were on-off switches, we could have genres like

• [ ] grim dark noble
• [ ] noble dark bright grim

If fiction is a meta truth, at times, then a story might have all these elements. Yang and yin and so on. Why couldn’t the tone of a story change along the way? (The writer changes.)