
My original Writing.
© S.B. aka Oddeofreq
© S.B. aka Oddeofreq
Category Story / All
Species Unspecified / Any
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Nicely dreamlike. I remember thinking about how intriguing the similarities between save games and beliefs about serial immortality through reincarnation could be, and how it might be interesting to do a longer story or novel exploring that. It seems a nice short format is potentially just as evocative!
So, commentary - I know one of my challenges as a writer is that I have a tendency to think in long, convoluted and rambling sentences, strung out series of related thoughts with potential yet limited links. On the other end of that spectrum are terse, atomic thoughts, as small as they can be to convey an idea which then gets used to construct larger ideas.
I'd say that good writing can visit both extremes, but tends to spend most of its time in the middle - mid-sized thoughts that flow into each other both within and between sentences. That way, the flow seems neither disjointed and choppy, nor overly convoluted and intricate such that one gets lost.
I think even if we're trying to be evocative of something which is supposed to be disjointed, like a dream, it can be better to use the terse, simple statements sparingly. Create the mood, renew the mood, but let things flow, in between.
So, commentary - I know one of my challenges as a writer is that I have a tendency to think in long, convoluted and rambling sentences, strung out series of related thoughts with potential yet limited links. On the other end of that spectrum are terse, atomic thoughts, as small as they can be to convey an idea which then gets used to construct larger ideas.
I'd say that good writing can visit both extremes, but tends to spend most of its time in the middle - mid-sized thoughts that flow into each other both within and between sentences. That way, the flow seems neither disjointed and choppy, nor overly convoluted and intricate such that one gets lost.
I think even if we're trying to be evocative of something which is supposed to be disjointed, like a dream, it can be better to use the terse, simple statements sparingly. Create the mood, renew the mood, but let things flow, in between.
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