I like long sentences. Shakespeare used long sentences. Can't be much wrong with 'em. :P
(Not that I wouldn't give my eyeteeth for either Shakespeare or Marlowe's turn of iambic pentameter, you understand.)
(My sentences are long and shiny because I take a long time to write them. I will never earn a living at this game, even should I be lucky enough to build a career in it. Besides, most people aren't that into shiny sentences. :) )
Oh, twenty questions. Fun! I'll take any excuse to talk about my stuff. :)
Regarding TTI, in answer to your questions: Sorrow... starts out as an observer, I suppose. Then she figures out that what she thought was an exile is actually a test, and if she doesn't pass it (it involves a tower, a labyrinth, some monsters, possibly a grail, a half-brother she can maybe risk trusting and an aunt - think Morgan le Fay, and not sympathetically interpreted - she really can't) she's not going to live long enough to go home.
Most of my protags manage to act. Otherwise they're not taking part in a story, but merely a meditation on the nature of life. And really, I don't like thoughtful essays half as much as I like thoughtful stories.
And you care about my protags because hopefully I'll make them understandable or sympathetic, in each of their own terribly broken, cowardly, kind, brave, foolish, compassionate, human fashions. (I'm not really sure I can manage inhuman: I haven't read enough Lovecraft for that. :P)
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(Not that I wouldn't give my eyeteeth for either Shakespeare or Marlowe's turn of iambic pentameter, you understand.)
(My sentences are long and shiny because I take a long time to write them. I will never earn a living at this game, even should I be lucky enough to build a career in it. Besides, most people aren't that into shiny sentences. :) )
Oh, twenty questions. Fun! I'll take any excuse to talk about my stuff. :)
Regarding TTI, in answer to your questions: Sorrow... starts out as an observer, I suppose. Then she figures out that what she thought was an exile is actually a test, and if she doesn't pass it (it involves a tower, a labyrinth, some monsters, possibly a grail, a half-brother she can maybe risk trusting and an aunt - think Morgan le Fay, and not sympathetically interpreted - she really can't) she's not going to live long enough to go home.
Most of my protags manage to act. Otherwise they're not taking part in a story, but merely a meditation on the nature of life. And really, I don't like thoughtful essays half as much as I like thoughtful stories.
And you care about my protags because hopefully I'll make them understandable or sympathetic, in each of their own terribly broken, cowardly, kind, brave, foolish, compassionate, human fashions. (I'm not really sure I can manage inhuman: I haven't read enough Lovecraft for that. :P)