Huh. I'm not gonna lie, you have simultaneously become perhaps my favourite person and terrified me a little bit.
I think you're right though, showing vs.telling is easier to spot than to explain. Thank you.
As for the rest-- I am so glad you particularly mentioned incoherent people!! I worry that it irritates people. But it also seems more realistic sometimes.
I'm worried that I don't know what you mean by speaking in metaphor though, because thaat sounds amazing and I'm sure I'm not skilled enough to do it and now I have some impossibly big shoes to fill.
I feel like my writing is wordy and purple-prosey a lot, which is why it startles me when people call it sparse orthat I manage to say a lot in only a few words, which is a lot if the feedback I get. It makes me think that they'll discover my purple prose at any moment and expose me for a fraud.
I don't have an editor but I dearly wish I did. Or a beta reader. Or a friend who didn't mind constantly being bombarded with scenes of original writing! I try not to annoy people, generally. Its a life goal.
Also, William and his pain killing techniques are a special favourite. I desperately want to turn that into something longer but I'm resisting til I finosh prism and the valkyrie blood play story. That still freaks me out a little.
I think you're right though, showing vs.telling is easier to spot than to explain. Thank you.
As for the rest-- I am so glad you particularly mentioned incoherent people!! I worry that it irritates people. But it also seems more realistic sometimes.
I'm worried that I don't know what you mean by speaking in metaphor though, because thaat sounds amazing and I'm sure I'm not skilled enough to do it and now I have some impossibly big shoes to fill.
I feel like my writing is wordy and purple-prosey a lot, which is why it startles me when people call it sparse orthat I manage to say a lot in only a few words, which is a lot if the feedback I get. It makes me think that they'll discover my purple prose at any moment and expose me for a fraud.
I don't have an editor but I dearly wish I did. Or a beta reader. Or a friend who didn't mind constantly being bombarded with scenes of original writing! I try not to annoy people, generally. Its a life goal.
Also, William and his pain killing techniques are a special favourite. I desperately want to turn that into something longer but I'm resisting til I finosh prism and the valkyrie blood play story. That still freaks me out a little.
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