You can do whatever you want.
I find connotative language useful. I look at it as a tool rather than something to work against.
True. Trying to describe things at length with only the written word is basically an excercise in futility. Have you ever read The Lord of the...
(0-7) accident waiting to happen (9-18) accident that already happened (20-40) preamble to midlife crisis (50-70) preamble to...
There's science fiction on the one hand and then there's fantasy fiction set in space on the other, and a distinction between the two is needed...
My objective wasn't to be helpful. I was merely telling the truth (or so I thought). It's not my fault creativity and organisation work in...
Spontaneity is pretty essential to creativity, I feel. However a story needs direction too. So you're kind of screwed either way, I feel.
Be that as it may, Shakespeare's characters are basically all talking in iambic pentameter, which I'm sure is even more contrived and inauthentic...
Um, duh, Lazarus was in the posession a Horcrux.
So the one thing that bothers me about every fantasy novel I've ever been been prevailed upon to read is the fact that nary a single character is...
What did you really expect anyway.
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