I felt a bit guilty speedreading through the dialog, all of it reinforcing, literarily, exactly what you were saying in the lengthier passages above. Meta-literarily in terms of the experience, perhaps. Really forced some introspection, thank you. I do enjoy writing longer and more illustratively, much of it born from, as a young child, enjoyable late night journeys into Tolkien, and later, the wandering worlds of Neal Stephenson and irrational nuance of Bret Easton Ellis. With those authors as references, I can self-justify just about any word count or exploratory detour.
The issue is that I felt I was being too prescriptive with that series. My understanding of it has also evolved into something I call the Grand Struggle, and I will write about that at some point.
I felt a bit guilty speedreading through the dialog, all of it reinforcing, literarily, exactly what you were saying in the lengthier passages above. Meta-literarily in terms of the experience, perhaps. Really forced some introspection, thank you. I do enjoy writing longer and more illustratively, much of it born from, as a young child, enjoyable late night journeys into Tolkien, and later, the wandering worlds of Neal Stephenson and irrational nuance of Bret Easton Ellis. With those authors as references, I can self-justify just about any word count or exploratory detour.
I'll include this among my writing resource links when I get home.
I appreciate that! It's a bit of an unusual 'resource' but hopefully someone gets something out of it 😅
I'm still disappointed you abandoned your series on the narrative problem.
The issue is that I felt I was being too prescriptive with that series. My understanding of it has also evolved into something I call the Grand Struggle, and I will write about that at some point.