So... How is it that some authors are able to write anything in a way that sounds good, even if it's a simple sentence? Don't say "it's artistic" or whatever. Is it something to do with the statistical distribution of grammar, like frequency of verbs? Or the metre?
>>24832891haha OP I love froggo XD
>>24832894Neck yourself
>>24832891one thing good writers do is construct the sentence so it places the rhythmic stress on the most important words. to do this you need to know which words you consider important. good style is first of all a matter of knowing what you want to say.
>>24832901OP here, I'm reading ASoIaF right now, which is a huge upgrade from the YA fantasy slop like I'm used to reading. But the prose is really standard, it's easy to read and and isn't stylized, aside from using some older-sounding grammar. Yet everything he writes just sounds beautiful and rolls off the tongue, even if it's just 2 sentences describing the setting, it somehow manages to give off a premium vibe of being written by a skilled author.
>>24832912Walk with me, my sweet summer child, and hear the tale of fat pink masts jutting into sopping wet myrish swamps and black nipples brushing against silk until her cunt became the world while in the privy the princess guzzled arbor gold and shat but the more she drank the more she shat until she was shitting brown water and around her the planks of the ship groaned like a fat man taking a shit while she cursed the gods and nuncle smiled as he broke his fast on black bread, bacon burned black, and mulled wine while capon-grease dribbled down his chin and onto the boiled leather of his jerkin for she was wet with love and did she not know words are wind and dark wings bring dark words and a lannister always pays her debts and mayhaps this is nothing but a mummers farce and useless as nipples on a breastplate and the princess has been fucking lancel and moonboy for all nuncle knows and he is the blood of the dragon for the night is dark and full of terrors but where do whores go and jon snow knows nothing and near enough makes no matter so nuncle smiled and dipped the heel of his bread into clam chowder and prayed for half a hundred more heh har HODOR
>>24832931I imagine this would be funny if I wasn't currently reading the series, but since I'm actually reading it I know this is inaccurate. Half of the items in this list are just canonical phrases that people say in the universe.
>>24832891Read the preface to https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17731/pg17731-images.html>A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
>>24832980This means nothingActual pseudointellectual nothingburger of a phrase
>>24832931Judging by the first page, he used plenty of alliteration and “O” assonance.Alliteration/consonant - repeating the same beginning letters: the morning had dawned Clear and Cold, with a Crispness that hinted at the end of summer.Assonance - repeating the same vowel sound: this was the first time he had been deemed OLD ENOUGH to GO with his LORD father and his BROther TO see the king’s justice DONE.Obviously most English writing naturally has alliteration and assonance since there are only so many vowels and letters. But A, E, I vowels are so common we barely notice them anymore. Same goes for words that start with S, T, A, W and the likes. So writing with more unique letters and vowels tends to indicate that the writer actually cares about which words he uses, and not simply writing down the first word that comes to mind. Also because “O” has a weight that lends itself well to old sounding English.Lo, good people, come and hear the words of God, our Lord who rules above and beyond, He who controls the Sun and Moon, and governs our world whole - or something like that.
STEM-babbys first notion of aesthetics.
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