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Yes, that's what I meant with true post-modernism often scrambling the meaning of normal prose. But it still requires the intention of being post-mode...
December 30, 2024 at 18:08
I've already abandoned that notion, but it was triggered by the weird paragraph structures, the choppy repetitions of actions that didn't flow in and ...
December 30, 2024 at 17:52
What I meant is that clarity for the character makes the character do things that the reader aren't aware the reasons for, or rather they get constant...
December 30, 2024 at 16:31
This is the place at the moment as we're talking about it in a broad sense. I'm not flooding that into someone's specific story discussion. We seem to...
December 30, 2024 at 14:36
But none of that has to do with the re-arranged order of actions that I described. Giving the punchline point of the metaphorical language the final b...
December 30, 2024 at 14:26
The character doesn't have to be omniscient, but the descriptions need a perspective. From whose perspective does the metaphorical description come fr...
December 30, 2024 at 13:52
Or that it's just purple prose. “The jar sits on the table like the lone leaf of a dying tree." What does this mean? Metaphors and evocative descripti...
December 30, 2024 at 12:43
Not to get this thread into a general discussion about the stories (I think that's supposed to be in the upcoming favorites thread), but I think the i...
December 30, 2024 at 00:30
I liked that end quote, but the thing I wondered about is if there even is a pay-back when he doesn't seem to care about the experiences that invade h...
December 29, 2024 at 17:46
Unfortunately I felt like that because all the things he specifically thinks about, refers to and mentions usually is the composition of an Islamic fu...
December 28, 2024 at 17:34
Does it warrant some extension before the favorites thread perhaps? Just like last year
December 27, 2024 at 12:51
Could be correct. I thought Kingdom Come, mainly due to the subject matter, but Dispatch is a good candidate as well.
December 27, 2024 at 12:50
I think the reason it doesn’t work for me is because there’s no reason for it being a shock revelation. If it’s indeed written as intended, then I don...
December 27, 2024 at 12:34
It was primarily the way it's written, with a poetic flow of descriptive language that never repeats and is neither overwritten nor underwritten. On t...
December 26, 2024 at 20:22
Use untapped skills for surprise attention https://media.tenor.com/images/4b8ff97dd5fd9fe3440c7b83ed2de40e/tenor.gif
December 26, 2024 at 11:06
My current guesses. Some are deduced into certainty while others are less certain. "The Unrighted Leotard" by Hanover Seems his style "Kingdom Come, I...
December 26, 2024 at 10:59
One also has to be ready to receive criticism and feedback when presenting a creation to the world. The art of giving critique is just as complex as h...
December 25, 2024 at 23:34
I would be more sympathetic if you didn’t send private messages calling me a stupid ass because I gave feedback trying to figure out the writing. I di...
December 25, 2024 at 15:54
If Vera has indeed played Disco Elysium, then I agree.
December 23, 2024 at 21:06
With just my second round in these short story events, I'm beginning to believe you're the Pierre Brassau of these things :sweat:
December 23, 2024 at 21:03
:sweat: Well, I never intend to be offensive, only honest.
December 23, 2024 at 17:19
It's still the stereotypical muslim fundamentalist. All these are point by point the kind of attributes that gets ticked off. Doesn't matter if he's a...
December 23, 2024 at 14:55
I loved it. It's satire-gold and while other's have said it's too on the nose, it's that on the noseness that brings the laughs. And I laughed out lou...
December 23, 2024 at 12:08
Competent writing and there's some interesting scenes, but as the others, I'm not sure about the meaning of it all. Had a hard time with the Ahmir cha...
December 23, 2024 at 11:27
While there was some fun parts in isolation, I didn't find much to hold onto with this. It reads like pure free writing, going in random directions al...
December 23, 2024 at 10:54
I feel there's a good story here that's being obstructed by language. Feels like the grammar comes from a bad translation or some software translation...
December 23, 2024 at 10:53
This is the same thing as screenings for movies during post production. Gathering a consensus of critique in order to find issues that aren’t just ind...
December 21, 2024 at 19:56
Precisely. Any perspective of our consciousness being a higher state or more special than everything else in reality is a conjecture based in our emot...
December 20, 2024 at 16:46
Isn't your argument relying on the Von Neumann–Wigner interpretation of quantum physics? And Schrödinger's cat wasn't a proposed concept of how things...
December 20, 2024 at 13:21
Not sure how you mean? I thought it was great to introduce a character in writing with lower-case r and the confusion why it's lower-case then explain...
December 19, 2024 at 23:32
Not sure why, but the Simon Stålenhag vibe of the atmosphere came to mind reading this for some reason. Maybe it's the nostalgic 90s with a magical re...
December 19, 2024 at 19:57
On the other hand, you do write serial-post long reflections and feedback on each story that I would believe takes up a lot of your time, and is very ...
December 19, 2024 at 19:44
Isn't that what most lives are like? People wandering through complex, but repetitious and routine tasks only to fall to their knees and cry in despai...
December 19, 2024 at 18:27
I find it that people act more in line with this story than they would ever ask straight out like that. People tend to dwell on minor things to have g...
December 19, 2024 at 17:22
Yes, true and I agree that some non-fluent texts are also brilliant. But in a case where a flow like this is apparent in the text I'm just saying I ca...
December 19, 2024 at 16:32
For myself I think such nuances went a bit over my head as it's a bit more advanced than my current English skills. For me, the poetic flow becomes mo...
December 19, 2024 at 16:14
This is a bit of a mixed bag. I liked the mid-90s feeling in which I can easily sense the rainy air, smells and light quality of the setting. It's lik...
December 19, 2024 at 15:54
:sweat: I will find yours and train a model of its own :joke:
December 19, 2024 at 15:07
As long as the text isn't funneled into training data without the author's consent thought. Although that might just happen by the nature of existing ...
December 19, 2024 at 15:00
This was fun. Transforming God and the heavens into an almost Sovietian style of bureaucratic agency in which we read a report by sloppy low level hal...
December 19, 2024 at 14:39
It better be that way, otherwise what a waste of talent it would be.
December 19, 2024 at 13:30
This is superbly written, masterfully crafted prose that just flow and flow without hiccups. I'm deeply jealous and in awe of the craftmanship of word...
December 19, 2024 at 12:39
I think the reflective line of thoughts about his situation works as a concept and ideas for a story about a failed tomb raider type of character, but...
December 19, 2024 at 11:25
Not sure it matters who was on his lap. Having a hard time seeing anything innocent about that situation.
December 18, 2024 at 19:30
Yes, but the story does not paint things in this manner until basically a one sentence description of Stevie listening in. The entire story is not set...
December 18, 2024 at 18:01
A simple man wouldn't make a likeness description that's more in need of abstract thinking than necessary. I think a simple man would rather do the op...
December 18, 2024 at 16:53
I'm not opposed to a creative flair of abstract descriptions and choice of language, but I feel a story needs to have a consistent style aesthetic thr...
December 18, 2024 at 15:31
Read it twice as well, but I felt it's a bit rough. It might be that it has been translated or use a descriptive language that has a different cultura...
December 18, 2024 at 15:05
I agree that this is a factor, but I think that this place of all places surely would have more people able to deal with longer written text. Maybe it...
December 18, 2024 at 13:57
Wouldn't a top shelf technically be so high that people just ignore it? Especially today when everyone's looking down on their phones.
December 18, 2024 at 13:08