School Report
26 December 2018 10:42![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nym_wibblyWorking with Hemingway is like getting a school report every few hours. I don't share its aversion to adverbs, not in prose, but it turns out I use surprisingly few. Huh.
I intentionally wrote a lot of passive voice and archaic/purple-prose language into A Bed of Thorns. I had this whole idea about Belle's narrative voice changing throughout the piece as she came down off her bookish cloud, stopped acting like she was living a fairytale, and started dealing with real life. The language would get tighter and tighter as the story built towards its climax. That idea totally bombed, didn't fit with the pacing that evolved nor with Belle's stubbornly-sensible mindset, so now I have to weed it all out and make her voice consistent throughout. Hemingway is going to make that job a lot easier. But I also need to make Belle a bit less stubbornly sensible. Her canon self is... prone to blind leaps of faith. She buys into the hero thing and believes in just desserts. ABoT!Belle asks herself too many of (what I consider to be) the right questions. She needs to be less cautious, more reckless.
I intentionally wrote a lot of passive voice and archaic/purple-prose language into A Bed of Thorns. I had this whole idea about Belle's narrative voice changing throughout the piece as she came down off her bookish cloud, stopped acting like she was living a fairytale, and started dealing with real life. The language would get tighter and tighter as the story built towards its climax. That idea totally bombed, didn't fit with the pacing that evolved nor with Belle's stubbornly-sensible mindset, so now I have to weed it all out and make her voice consistent throughout. Hemingway is going to make that job a lot easier. But I also need to make Belle a bit less stubbornly sensible. Her canon self is... prone to blind leaps of faith. She buys into the hero thing and believes in just desserts. ABoT!Belle asks herself too many of (what I consider to be) the right questions. She needs to be less cautious, more reckless.
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