sorry about the late response: chrome re-booted its self a while ago and destroyed my comment. I'm going to respond to your inquiries backwards. So I do agree with your self-analysis as far as I can tell from what I've read of yours.
I think that it is not necessarily that I think that writing should be stand-out but that I like to stop once in a while during my reading and think to myself "wow that's an amazing way to say that."
That aside I think that we have different tastes in writing. I think this largely because of what we read. I know that you read a lot of Science Fiction as do I, but not anywhere as much. I find myself glued to Oscar Wilde, Leonard Cohen, Faulkner, Asimov, Yeats and B.Woodward most lately. (Mind that I of course haven't read as much as you so these are a selection of the few authors that I have actually had chance to read.) Besides that I enjoy nonfiction books by all authors provided that I am interested in the subject matter, which in pretty much all cases I am and in this case the best writing style is the one that most effectively communicates and interests.
The one thing that joins those authors together in my opinion is how they say things. Except Asimov, he's more of a direct, terse kind of guy in my opinion.
I also enjoy it when it sounds like the author is talking to you. Like the entire book is a (one-sided) conversation. Which is something similar in how you and I write. I've never seen an essay of yours that I can't hear the voice of. Which is why I propose that your novel is becoming better as you resolve to just tell the story. (I wouldn't know because I haven't seen it) I would say keep up doing what you are good at: telling the story, and don't worry about le mot juste.
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dancing_serpent
Re: bonne chance
Date: 2009-08-26 03:53 pm (UTC)I'm going to respond to your inquiries backwards. So I do agree with your self-analysis as far as I can tell from what I've read of yours.
I think that it is not necessarily that I think that writing should be stand-out but that I like to stop once in a while during my reading and think to myself "wow that's an amazing way to say that."
That aside I think that we have different tastes in writing. I think this largely because of what we read. I know that you read a lot of Science Fiction as do I, but not anywhere as much. I find myself glued to Oscar Wilde, Leonard Cohen, Faulkner, Asimov, Yeats and B.Woodward most lately. (Mind that I of course haven't read as much as you so these are a selection of the few authors that I have actually had chance to read.) Besides that I enjoy nonfiction books by all authors provided that I am interested in the subject matter, which in pretty much all cases I am and in this case the best writing style is the one that most effectively communicates and interests.
The one thing that joins those authors together in my opinion is how they say things. Except Asimov, he's more of a direct, terse kind of guy in my opinion.
I also enjoy it when it sounds like the author is talking to you. Like the entire book is a (one-sided) conversation. Which is something similar in how you and I write. I've never seen an essay of yours that I can't hear the voice of.
Which is why I propose that your novel is becoming better as you resolve to just tell the story. (I wouldn't know because I haven't seen it)
I would say keep up doing what you are good at: telling the story, and don't worry about le mot juste.
Hope that answers your inquiries...