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Sep. 8th, 2023 05:18 pmone of the really cool things about this gunter slowburn is that it's forcing me to analyze writing styles like i've never done before
like i've written ... a lot i guess, between RP and personal stories? and i think a lot about how characters think.
but i've never sat down and gone 'ok what precisely in the sentence rhythm did i like so much about how the dark elf trilogy described the underdark' 'what about this fallout fic's constant wartime metaphors that convincingly conveyed PTSD without mentioning the acronym, and how did the staccato but sensory-filled sentences work' 'what adjectives in this hellsing fic made the most convincingly (ethically fuuuucked up) walter you've ever seen'
like i vaguely felt some authors have different styles but it is really cool having like 4 textedit documents on one screen to compare/contrast.
since with writing something that's ~70k, you can't just rely on 'cool new scene, cool new character' to hold the whole thing, you have to describe all kinds of different events and moods and dynamics between the characters or it gets bland/flat.
(weirdly enough i feel like writing something that long is much easier than writing something short. you have more runway to get your context in, and how it flavors the characters/moods every which way, versus a 500 word drabble which has no room for that.)
funny thing is, i've analyzed various art styles to slowly approach what i want my art to look like, but all of writing up until now has been 'whatever feels good' lol. and in hindsight i've analyzed different characters, and how their dialouge sounds different to others, but it's very different than analyzing writing styles as a whole, since comics/games is different than straight up prose -- and i'd argue the former two are more similar to screenplays.
like i've written ... a lot i guess, between RP and personal stories? and i think a lot about how characters think.
but i've never sat down and gone 'ok what precisely in the sentence rhythm did i like so much about how the dark elf trilogy described the underdark' 'what about this fallout fic's constant wartime metaphors that convincingly conveyed PTSD without mentioning the acronym, and how did the staccato but sensory-filled sentences work' 'what adjectives in this hellsing fic made the most convincingly (ethically fuuuucked up) walter you've ever seen'
like i vaguely felt some authors have different styles but it is really cool having like 4 textedit documents on one screen to compare/contrast.
since with writing something that's ~70k, you can't just rely on 'cool new scene, cool new character' to hold the whole thing, you have to describe all kinds of different events and moods and dynamics between the characters or it gets bland/flat.
(weirdly enough i feel like writing something that long is much easier than writing something short. you have more runway to get your context in, and how it flavors the characters/moods every which way, versus a 500 word drabble which has no room for that.)
funny thing is, i've analyzed various art styles to slowly approach what i want my art to look like, but all of writing up until now has been 'whatever feels good' lol. and in hindsight i've analyzed different characters, and how their dialouge sounds different to others, but it's very different than analyzing writing styles as a whole, since comics/games is different than straight up prose -- and i'd argue the former two are more similar to screenplays.
