Tag: wordcraft
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Some personal word definitions. Because that’s all I have today.
After reading a dialogue-heavy book over breakfast (as one does) I pondered how much of every conversations consists of fillers, reflective phrases and “message received” acknowledgements, and that led to more pondering on perpetual nature of communication issues like: “Are you even listening?” “Yes, I heard you.” “Then why are you doing it all wrong?/ “Then […]
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The devil is in the details
I love world-building. I hate being bogged down in lengthy explanations. Those two ideas seem to contradict each other, but they don’t. Constructing a whole reality idea by idea doesn’t have to mean burying the reader in excess information. It’s successful if it’s real. It works if it works. I’ve been thinking a lot about how that gets done lately, […]
