Post by Lady Idril on Jun 22, 2007 16:14:36 GMT -5
admin said:
But if you asked me to describe the landscape that my characters see, I'd say a tree and some prairie grass. I rush my stories horribly and don't take my time to develop scenes as I should.M, you have to see a little movie called Shadows in the Sun. I've probably told you that before. Actually, everyone should look it up. It's a great made-for-tv film about finding yourself, writing and the most important thing in the world: Italy. (What? I love my Italia.) Anyway, there's a particular scene where veteran novelist Weldon Parish (Harvey Keitel) is teaching stiff beginner Jeremy Taylor (Joshua Jackson) how to capture the bliss of description in a Tuscan sunset. It's my favorite scene from the movie.
Anyway, that's slightly off the topic I suppose. Sorry about that.
And I agree with M on the vocabulary wish. I read, say, Pride & Prejudice and I'm just amazed at the words Austen compiled at such an early age. I also watch a lot of period films and I'm always inspired by the eloquence. I've always wanted to do that, but I never thought I had the memory for it. I do, though, open a thesaurus in my word processor whenever I work on a story for those times when I just can't pin-point the word that would work best.
I think words are my biggest thing, I'm most intrigued by an author who can put one simple sentence together in a way that makes you sit back and go, "That was so smart." I notice grammar errors, but I'm usually hardly any better so I don't find judgement there.
When I'm reading FanFiction I think I judge mostly on how well the author has managed to capture the character. That's what matters most to me, otherwise I really wouldn't be reading the FanFiction from that genre anyway.
There be my two cents. Make of them what you will