#a hauntingly beautiful earthshattering layering of metaphor it usually has the exact opposite effect. It dulls any intended impact and | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

prolibytherium · 9 months ago

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I get sooooooooo fucking bored of flowery prose sometimes, like it has its place but I see so much online writing where it feels like every sentence is a calculated attempt at making it big in a webweaving post.

#It's MOSTLY just a personal taste thing for me but for real if you're trying extremely hard to make each and every sentence #a hauntingly beautiful earthshattering layering of metaphor it usually has the exact opposite effect. It dulls any intended impact and #makes the parts that actually SHOULD be impactful just another wet pile of word slop in the soup. Strike some balance..#As far as personal taste goes I love me some brutally dry prose it's so sexy #You know there can be 'themes and motifs' in that too? Believe it?#Wish I had some examples off the top of my head but I've been in 'reading nonfiction only' mode for several months now

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