Do you expect me to scream and cry at you in incoherence, that's why you went anon to say this? Do de-anon - it makes things easier for both of us, and I don't take offence that easily. I won't throw a fit and defriend you or anything.
Part of it I think you misunderstood me, so perhaps you should have read further? Or perhaps I should have made myself clearer in my first sentence. Hm. But anyway, I don't dislike metaphors and imagery - like you pointed out yourself, I use them. A lot. I adore descriptive language, but I use that language for a purpose, and I dwell on that a lot when I write.
Every metaphor I use have a purpose. And honestly a lot of times I feel that using these devices actually showed these emotions with far more clarity and strength. It illuminates a lot. Like in that simile I used above, I think you immediately got what I meant, and I used it later on to further show how that pretty language actually becomes dull and loses its impact. (I'm discussing lit techniques in a blog entry. What the heck, self.) I use descriptive, 'pretty' langugae for a purpose, which is the point I'm getting ast here - that it's often used to no purpose, and it drowns out the characters and the stories and turns it all into something meaningless.
I do look at my own writing a lot, but I admit that I of course have bias. I don't mind that you think my writing is mediocre. I know that I'm far from perfect, that I have a lot more to work on. (As Echizen would say, 'Mada mada dane', and I apply it to a lot of myself. Life is a constant pursuit of improvement.) But I'd rather that you tell me face to face instead of behind anon so that I can, with your permission, pry your brain to see how I can improve on it. It's impossible to try to please everyone, I know (different preferences, after all), but I would really like to know what you judge to be goodfic so I can stop writing 'boring pretty!fic.
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Part of it I think you misunderstood me, so perhaps you should have read further? Or perhaps I should have made myself clearer in my first sentence. Hm. But anyway, I don't dislike metaphors and imagery - like you pointed out yourself, I use them. A lot. I adore descriptive language, but I use that language for a purpose, and I dwell on that a lot when I write.
Every metaphor I use have a purpose. And honestly a lot of times I feel that using these devices actually showed these emotions with far more clarity and strength. It illuminates a lot. Like in that simile I used above, I think you immediately got what I meant, and I used it later on to further show how that pretty language actually becomes dull and loses its impact. (I'm discussing lit techniques in a blog entry. What the heck, self.) I use descriptive, 'pretty' langugae for a purpose, which is the point I'm getting ast here - that it's often used to no purpose, and it drowns out the characters and the stories and turns it all into something meaningless.
I do look at my own writing a lot, but I admit that I of course have bias. I don't mind that you think my writing is mediocre. I know that I'm far from perfect, that I have a lot more to work on. (As Echizen would say, 'Mada mada dane', and I apply it to a lot of myself. Life is a constant pursuit of improvement.) But I'd rather that you tell me face to face instead of behind anon so that I can, with your permission, pry your brain to see how I can improve on it. It's impossible to try to please everyone, I know (different preferences, after all), but I would really like to know what you judge to be goodfic so I can stop writing 'boring pretty!fic.
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