Is this a darling? Should I kill it?
Apr. 28th, 2010 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceThis:
They put faith in her: however much they needed to, however little they had. She would not betray that. However much she felt betrayed herself, however little faith she had in Darro.
- is the sort of thing I do all the time, a rhetorical tic, a kind of literary echolalia. I do it almost without thinking, every chance I can see or make. I suppose I'd call it style or voice or some such, and I love it, I get a warm little shivery feeling every time; but I do worry that other people would call it self-indulgence. I write something with slaughter and politics and revolution and a dragon too, and people call it slow: and I think perhaps this is what they mean, that they trip constantly over the wordplay when what they want is plot. To me, this is plot - "plot" being just what people do, and why they do it - but I am aware that other people see things differently. I just - oh, I dunno. *flails helplessly*
They put faith in her: however much they needed to, however little they had. She would not betray that. However much she felt betrayed herself, however little faith she had in Darro.
- is the sort of thing I do all the time, a rhetorical tic, a kind of literary echolalia. I do it almost without thinking, every chance I can see or make. I suppose I'd call it style or voice or some such, and I love it, I get a warm little shivery feeling every time; but I do worry that other people would call it self-indulgence. I write something with slaughter and politics and revolution and a dragon too, and people call it slow: and I think perhaps this is what they mean, that they trip constantly over the wordplay when what they want is plot. To me, this is plot - "plot" being just what people do, and why they do it - but I am aware that other people see things differently. I just - oh, I dunno. *flails helplessly*