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ReverieMe
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31 May 2014, 2:49 pm

mezzanotte wrote:
CuddleHug wrote:
This is a question of writing style. So you?re reading a story. The author describes in detail a room that the characters are in it takes up half the page if not more. What the room looks like is absolutely irrelevant to the plot, setting an environment or building the character. Does this annoy anyone else do you feel like your time has just been wasted by pointless description? Or is it something that you actually like and I just cannot see it's value?


If you're serious about writing and exploring this topic in depth, read Robert Boswell's The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction.


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31 May 2014, 3:13 pm

Here's a quote from David Chase, the guy responsible for The Sopranos:

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up. I think there should be dreams and music and dead air and stuff that goes nowhere. There should be, God forgive me, a little bit of poetry.