I love adjectives too much they have given me writing arthritis.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Argh, yes.

    My brain glitched there. That wasn't a fun series of college classes but I should know better.

    "You can't rhyme, even in a couplet. Write that part again, Ulysses. Poetry that rhymes will never be taken seriously." :maybe-later-honey:

    Because Samuel Taylor Coleridge wasn't taken seriously and doesn't have fans like myself. :guts-rage:

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      2 years ago

      Nothing's really dead in English literature. The sonnet's gone in and out of style how many times?

      I agree with your top post - write what makes sense for what you're trying to say, not for what the "fashion" is. Maybe the composition demands a florid style. Not everything has to be Hemingway.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I had an especially smug "Ultra" liberal professor that also claimed he hated "genre" fiction and refused to accept any such work from students for a grade. Of course that meant his genre was not considered genre fiction, so if it was grimy bleak contemporary prose where more than half of each page is exhaustive descriptions of name branded products in the room while :grillman: characters cuss at each other, do drugs, and/or contemplate suicide, that has no genre at all. :galaxy-brain:

        • Wertheimer [any]
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          2 years ago

          He was clearly a magnificent practitioner of the objective correlative, doing everything he could to make his readers want to do drugs and contemplate suicide.