/lit/ - Literature

>>10058848
>"My own conscious ideal has been to delude the reader into accepting an impossibility, or series of impossibilities, by means of a sort of verbal black magic, in the achievement of which I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like a sort of incantation."
That's a good quote. It's impressive how he was able to sort of meander into verbosity in the middle yet snap right back and sew up the thought cleanly with 'incantation'.
>In a fantasy piece it is better to call something fulvous or umber instead of reddish brown. Prelate also trumps bishop every time. It's about avoiding the mundane.
You're unassailable there yet:
>cold and green as the ice of ancient floes
>amber liquids
>coral viper
>ashen mottlings
>verdigris-eaten clasps
Wonderfully evocative and flavorful! Are these not preferable to:
>fulvous
of a dull brownish yellow: tawny
>umber
a dark, yellowish brown color
Or the most irritating of the three:
>glaucous
of a pale yellow-green color
of a light bluish-gray or bluish-white color
having a powdery or waxy coating that gives a frosted appearance and tends to rub off
Now, granted, those definitions are the M-W app's "for plebs" summaries. However with a quick look at tawny, you can directly tie it to the color of a lion's coat (or hairband music videos although regrettably less accurately). Glaucous--is it yellow-green or white-blue? Or was he describing the gray on the beard as being like unto that spray-on snow for Christmas trees?! Umber is still umber: even looking at a more precise definition, it's 'darker than ocher and sienna'. Grr!

>>10058892
Toss in a cover photo and maybe a thought or question about "Forging Divinity". At worst you'll still get no answer but perhaps someone else might be prompted to read it as well.