Last week, I had two conversations within a day of each other about how, with visual art, you can create sketches that, even unpolished, nevertheless create an image of what the whole and complete piece would look like, and how, when it comes to writing, you don't really have that option--there's no writing equivalent of a "sketch" that most people
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Very enjoyable piece!
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I'm really glad that you like the voice here, too. To think that there was once a time where I tried to avoid first-person like the plague. :)
...the distinction between lovemaking and fucking is nicely elaborated without being overtly described.
I figured it was something that anyone who's had sex would be able to understand without having to put too many words into it. As for folks who haven't, well, I'll just choose to believe that there aren't that many of those among my readership. :)
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For these exercises, I write things out by hand, and almost invariably, I'm actually never happy with what I come up with. Part of it is probably because my brain is used to writing at the speed of Typing, not the speed of Pencil, and in those twenty minutes I can barely get one side of a sheet of notebook paper filled with words that make sense.
By comparison, in the hour it took me to write this story here, I felt like I really just hit the groove I needed to and I got the story out, and I'm happy that I at least finished it in the time I allowed myself.
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What I more meant by 'sketch,' in this case, is the equivalent of what artists do when they draw out a quick piece just to sort of do it. Maybe it'll just be a quick little doodle done in pencil, which they're never going to ink or color or anything, but it still gets the point across of, "This is what the image looks like." I think that that concept is a lot harder to do with the written form, and that's kiiind of what I tried to do, here.
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