I want to edit this entry but I have it locked

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/RiverdaleMainCharacters

specifically, it describes Jughead writing a "True Crime novel". you can't write a "True Crime novel". you can write a novel 'based' upon an actual crime but a novels means, by definition, a work which departs from reality, even if a real person might narrate it.

see defintion: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/novel?s=t

like I said, I couldn't fix this.

Edited by frogpatrol on Sep 13th 2018 at 11:49:01 AM

That page was locked because of a glitch. I fixed it, so you should be able to edit the page now.

For future reference, if you see a page that seems to be locked for no reason, like this one was, just go the page's history and click edit from there. That should fix the glitch.

Edited by Primis on Sep 13th 2018 at 12:07:38 PM

Words mean different things depending on the context. In this case, "novel" doesn't mean "unique or unorthodox", it means "over 40,000 words long, probably between 60,000 and 100,000 words".

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From your link: "an extended work in prose, either fictitious or partly so, dealing with character, action, thought, etc, esp in the form of a story"

Edited by crazysamaritan on Sep 13th 2018 at 4:22:32 AM

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.

Yeah. Even if it departs from the technical dictionary definition, the phrase "True Crime novel" has entered common usage and thus is accurate.