four new rambles

[arduinna]

After reading one too many stories full of epithets, I started writing an essay/ramble/rant thing about "elegant variation", which expanded into these cheesily named things:

Variety Is the Spice of Life... and I Need Some Tums (This one's sort of the 'base' essay.)

Purple Fanfic's (total lack of) Majesty

Epithets: Fandom's Designated Hitters

'Said' Is Not a Four-Letter Word

And, thanks to a bunch of friends who chimed in with examples from their fandoms, I pulled together a list of epithet examples from all over, just for fun:

Epithets

Comments

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

are there really people out there who don't?

*waves hand* I think it's good advice, I'll pass it on as good advice when talking about writing, but I don't do it myself. I'm all about the good writing habits in theory...

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

do you subvocalize? i don't always have to read it out loud as much as concentrate on the sound rather than the meaning of it (b/c i just cannot read your prose and nor believe that someone didn't edit it with ermphasis on style/sound rather than story/sense... :-)

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

I think for me, actually shaping the words in my head (and I nearly always construct the entire sentence before I write it down, or sometimes more than one sentence, to get the rhythm right) serves the same purpose.

Then, of course, someone comes along and moves the commas. *g*