How Writing Is Like Fencing, With Writer Max Gladstone - Part 1
Ex Urbe Ad Astra
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Using the Narrator's Language in a Description
The author has a clear visualization of what the thing is, and really wants to make you visualize it that way, too. It's interesting to me how the demands of prose fiction may or may not have changed in the last hundred years with the rise of different ways to convey story. M, i am reading a lot of turn of the last century adventure fiction right now. So, like, am reading a scaramoch and the tarzand and john carter and all these things. And there, m, it's very common to have a big old paragraph of, you know, and the persons eyes were this way and set in this way. And their face and the protruding
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