Okay, if people mix up the prose style with the traditional narrative style, that's just looking for trouble, I think. So yes, I have to agree there. I've just got to speak up for amazing prose-poets like losselen or what I've seen of imochan. It's really the difference between:
"Oi, give me that chocolate frog!" Sirius snatched at Remus' captured treat. The sun set outside, filling the room with red light.
and
That day, Sirius snatched at Remus' chocolate frog as the sun bled red light through the shuttered windows.
Which are just going for entirely different things. Prose writing does tend to have a distanced sort of effect that not everyone likes, which is cool and all, but I don't think it's wrong or inferior, just a matter of taste, which I guess is what I was slightly offput by.
I don't know, beats me. Perhaps it's a sort of exercise in trying to see if they can pull it off, but if the characters refuse to be written that way, well... yeah. See? Doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm just closed-minded. *g*
HAHAHA I guess I am too, then. :D
Honestly, I think sometimes a character pings the bells in a person's head, and they get attached to the bits that ping them, and either forget about or don't notice the rest. Then they fill in the holes with more things they do like. And then they do it with another character and pour the two into their closest beloved archetypal relationship.
For example, Snape's bitterness, stormy emotions and intelligence might ping someone's Heathcliff-o-meter, and they'll find the closets Cathy-ish-person and pair them together, whether Snape and that person would ever get together or not. Meanwhile, they sort of ignore/forget about the part where he's not ONLY a bitter, intelligent guy with stormy emotions, he's also a petty 15-year-old bully in the body of a 37 year old man. (I LIKE Snape, by the way LOL)
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Okay, if people mix up the prose style with the traditional narrative style, that's just looking for trouble, I think. So yes, I have to agree there. I've just got to speak up for amazing prose-poets like
"Oi, give me that chocolate frog!" Sirius snatched at Remus' captured treat. The sun set outside, filling the room with red light.
and
That day, Sirius snatched at Remus' chocolate frog as the sun bled red light through the shuttered windows.
Which are just going for entirely different things. Prose writing does tend to have a distanced sort of effect that not everyone likes, which is cool and all, but I don't think it's wrong or inferior, just a matter of taste, which I guess is what I was slightly offput by.
I don't know, beats me. Perhaps it's a sort of exercise in trying to see if they can pull it off, but if the characters refuse to be written that way, well... yeah. See? Doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm just closed-minded. *g*
HAHAHA I guess I am too, then. :D
Honestly, I think sometimes a character pings the bells in a person's head, and they get attached to the bits that ping them, and either forget about or don't notice the rest. Then they fill in the holes with more things they do like. And then they do it with another character and pour the two into their closest beloved archetypal relationship.
For example, Snape's bitterness, stormy emotions and intelligence might ping someone's Heathcliff-o-meter, and they'll find the closets Cathy-ish-person and pair them together, whether Snape and that person would ever get together or not. Meanwhile, they sort of ignore/forget about the part where he's not ONLY a bitter, intelligent guy with stormy emotions, he's also a petty 15-year-old bully in the body of a 37 year old man. (I LIKE Snape, by the way LOL)
That's my theory and I'm sticking to it, LOL