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How to make concise, almost clinical prose be interesting?

>> No.21311784

make the subject matter engaging.

>> No.21311802

>>21311784
But it's bound to feel, well, clinical after some time.

>> No.21311841

>>21311778
Put like a Bop! or a Pow! every couple sentences.

>> No.21311877

>>21311802
be confident in your style.
besides, what's the alternative? are you going to dump in some random jarring prose? pepper it with onomatopoeia like >>21311841
suggests? just write clinically, with precision, if that's the style that suits you. if you start worrying about your voice without a reasonable alternative to it, you're going to have a bad time. if something compels your style to change in the *process itself* of writing, then let it happen, but don't go twiddling dials because you feel someone might get exhausted by it. that's what breaks are for, if what you have to write is worth reading, people will be patient with your style, and as their familiarity with it grows, so too will their appreciation for it.

>> No.21311884

The idea of an identical self that persists throughout all of our experience, on this view, arises from the law-governed regularity of nature, and our representations exhibit order and regularity because reality itself is ordered and regular. Pow! Kant rejects this realist view and embraces a conception of self-consciousness that is both formal and idealist.

>> No.21312272

>>21311877
Thanks anon. I'll stick to what it is instead of insulting integrity.
>>21311884
Funny but deranged.

>> No.21312291

>>21312272
Never stop being critical of your writing, mind you. But it's a fine line between constructively critiquing yourself and needlessly denigrating yourself at the expense of your confidence. Once you start releasing your writing, there will be no shortage of people who hate you and want you to feel badly about not just your writing but yourself. As hard as it is, you need to be your own cheerleader. If you don't believe in yourself, who else is going to?

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>>21311778
>concise, almost clinical prose
This is the foundation with which you create the space to add flourishes. Artfulness here can and ought to make (or rather, find) interesting things that otherwise wouldn't be worth taking note of (but are necessary here in the flow of the events you're unfolding). "I'd listen to [Actor] read the phone book!" That sort of thing.

>be interesting
That's the quality of the creative imagination/ideas, not the technical execution of the prose. It will come of itself if it has merit. Draw them out, the Muse wills it.

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>>21311778
>How to make concise, almost clinical prose be interesting?
Pic-related.

>> No.21312430

>>21311778
Read DFW (PBUH)

>> No.21312450

>>21311841
Pow! Today I consider it my good fortune that Fate designated Braunau on the Inn as the place of my birth. For this small town is situated on the border between those two German States, the reunion of which seems, at least to us of the younger generation, a task to be furthered with every means our lives long. Bop!

>> No.21312510

>>21311778
It should always allude to some secret