Post by account_disabled on Dec 9, 2023 16:33:01 GMT 12
In many articles and manuals on writing, adverbs are viewed with a very critical eye. I don't feel like blaming them a priori, I myself tend to sip them, especially if they produce involuntary rhymes in the narrative. There are those who hate the adverb "suddenly", but if it exists it should be used. His abuse is a sign of poor writing experience, it's true, but if a character suddenly falls down the stairs, no one can do anything about it. #3 – Descriptions I had written a post in which I defended descriptions in Fantasy , because I considered them necessary to offer the reader a sort of entrance key to the world created by the writer.
There are many who do not appreciate the descriptions, perhaps preferring more attention to the introspection of the characters. But a description, if used with skill and skill, is an added value to the story. If the writer has an accentuated poetic streak, then he will be able to make his descriptions small poems in prose which not only have a mere technical function, Phone Number Data because they show the reader the setting in which the story takes place, but embellish the story. Again comparing London and McCarthy. The descriptions in Jack London It was a magnificent spring, but neither men nor dogs were able to realize it. Every day the sun rose earlier and set later.
At three in the morning it dawned and the twilight lingered until nine in the evening. The sun shone all day. The ghostly silence of winter was succeeded by the great murmur of awakening life. This murmur rose from all over the land, seething with the joy of being alive, from creatures once again living and moving after the long winter months of nertia and death. Sap rose from the pines. Lianas and bushes put back green leaves. During the nights the crickets sang, and during the day creatures of all kinds came out into the sun, walking or crawling. In the forest the voices of partridges could be heard and the drumming of woodpeckers resounded. The squirrels chattered, the birds sang, and in the sky the wild geese cawed, coming up from the South in wedges that cut the air.
There are many who do not appreciate the descriptions, perhaps preferring more attention to the introspection of the characters. But a description, if used with skill and skill, is an added value to the story. If the writer has an accentuated poetic streak, then he will be able to make his descriptions small poems in prose which not only have a mere technical function, Phone Number Data because they show the reader the setting in which the story takes place, but embellish the story. Again comparing London and McCarthy. The descriptions in Jack London It was a magnificent spring, but neither men nor dogs were able to realize it. Every day the sun rose earlier and set later.
At three in the morning it dawned and the twilight lingered until nine in the evening. The sun shone all day. The ghostly silence of winter was succeeded by the great murmur of awakening life. This murmur rose from all over the land, seething with the joy of being alive, from creatures once again living and moving after the long winter months of nertia and death. Sap rose from the pines. Lianas and bushes put back green leaves. During the nights the crickets sang, and during the day creatures of all kinds came out into the sun, walking or crawling. In the forest the voices of partridges could be heard and the drumming of woodpeckers resounded. The squirrels chattered, the birds sang, and in the sky the wild geese cawed, coming up from the South in wedges that cut the air.