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<blockquote data-quote="orchid blossom" data-source="post: 4223584" data-attributes="member: 12815"><p>[sblock=comments about my story]I have had an extremely busy last couple days, so I’m just pleased I managed to get something to turn in. It’s certainly not my best work, but I feel good about it.</p><p></p><p>I decided to try to break one of my bad habits, overexplaining. I always want to describe everything, and explain everything. So much so that it can drag the writing down. So while the language here is a little flowery (or a lot, depending on your definition) I tried to make sure I didn’t use extra words. I also tried to avoid starting too many sentences with He or She, instead stating things other ways.</p><p></p><p>The other things that tends to be important to me is a name. Names for characters make a huge part of who they are. I wanted to try and go without that little cheat of definition through name. I also felt for this particular story having the characters be sort of anonymous worked.</p><p></p><p>And of course, keeping it short. I don’t tend to think in short story lengths.</p><p></p><p>I don’t know that I’m proud of this as a piece of writing, but as an exercise for me it was well worthwhile.</p><p></p><p>Oh, also, this is what comes of listening to Loreena McKennitt while writing.[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="orchid blossom, post: 4223584, member: 12815"] [sblock=comments about my story]I have had an extremely busy last couple days, so I’m just pleased I managed to get something to turn in. It’s certainly not my best work, but I feel good about it. I decided to try to break one of my bad habits, overexplaining. I always want to describe everything, and explain everything. So much so that it can drag the writing down. So while the language here is a little flowery (or a lot, depending on your definition) I tried to make sure I didn’t use extra words. I also tried to avoid starting too many sentences with He or She, instead stating things other ways. The other things that tends to be important to me is a name. Names for characters make a huge part of who they are. I wanted to try and go without that little cheat of definition through name. I also felt for this particular story having the characters be sort of anonymous worked. And of course, keeping it short. I don’t tend to think in short story lengths. I don’t know that I’m proud of this as a piece of writing, but as an exercise for me it was well worthwhile. Oh, also, this is what comes of listening to Loreena McKennitt while writing.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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