A pocketful of prose
Jul. 6th, 2005 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stillsostrangeWhat is up with fickle story language?
My writing has improved pretty drastically over the last several years. FT had a few shiny sentences, but Dreams was better. Then I looked back at the beginning of Dreams after I'd been working on it a few months are realized it sucked, and tried to retrofit some shiny into it. Then after Dreams I wrote some short stories whose prose blew Dreams out of the water. Crepuscule was rather shiny (imho), and Prayers is the prettiest thing I've ever written. (If only it would make with the plotty goodness.)
So there seems to be a forward trend.
Except as I work on the G,G & M thing, the prose has traveled back in time to the beginning of Dreams--very simplistic and unshiny. We could perhaps use "transparent" as a euphamism for "sucky and bland".
Argh, I say. Argh. Plot should not come at the cost of prettiness, darn it.
My writing has improved pretty drastically over the last several years. FT had a few shiny sentences, but Dreams was better. Then I looked back at the beginning of Dreams after I'd been working on it a few months are realized it sucked, and tried to retrofit some shiny into it. Then after Dreams I wrote some short stories whose prose blew Dreams out of the water. Crepuscule was rather shiny (imho), and Prayers is the prettiest thing I've ever written. (If only it would make with the plotty goodness.)
So there seems to be a forward trend.
Except as I work on the G,G & M thing, the prose has traveled back in time to the beginning of Dreams--very simplistic and unshiny. We could perhaps use "transparent" as a euphamism for "sucky and bland".
Argh, I say. Argh. Plot should not come at the cost of prettiness, darn it.
