: Re: Am I making the writing too complex? My story is of a fantasy world where the wars of several species have all been fought, lost, and the protagonist is writing his journal from inside a

Samuel Delany does this effectively near the end of Dhalgren, but only for fairly brief passages. As with any stylistic innovation, you have to make it worth the reader's effort to adjust to it.

Remember, "realism is just another style." I would use this sparingly and only for things you actually want to convey to the reader, not just for the sake of verisimilitude.

Load Full (0)

: How to indicate that a single letter was removed from a quotation Suppose a source text says: 1 Timothy 2:4 says that God desires all people to be saved. Now suppose I want to quote

@Kristi637

Load Full 4 Comments

: Meeting with a respected publisher, what questions should I ask? At a writing conference I've managed to snag a 15 minute appointment with a publisher (who published Terry Pratchett, my favourite

@Kristi637

Load Full 3 Comments

: Advice on writing a research paper I am a math major who hasn't written a research paper in 6 years, and I need some help. I have to write two thesis statements, and have both written,

@Kristi637

Load Full 1 Comments

: How to properly cite a source in your footnotes? I notice in some of the books I read that the author sometimes leaves explanatory notes that refer the reader to a book but the note is not

: Re: Am I making the writing too complex? My story is of a fantasy world where the wars of several species have all been fought, lost, and the protagonist is writing his journal from inside a

More posts by @Kristi637

: How to indicate that a single letter was removed from a quotation Suppose a source text says: 1 Timothy 2:4 says that God desires all people to be saved. Now suppose I want to quote

: Meeting with a respected publisher, what questions should I ask? At a writing conference I've managed to snag a 15 minute appointment with a publisher (who published Terry Pratchett, my favourite

: Advice on writing a research paper I am a math major who hasn't written a research paper in 6 years, and I need some help. I have to write two thesis statements, and have both written,

: How to properly cite a source in your footnotes? I notice in some of the books I read that the author sometimes leaves explanatory notes that refer the reader to a book but the note is not

Login to post a comment!

0 Comments

Back to top