Sunday, November 07, 2004
WIP Sentences Meme
If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favourite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your discretion. Mention the title (and genre) if you like, but don't mention anything else -- this is merely to whet the general appetite for your forthcoming work(s).
I doubt anyone will actually have their appetites whetted by this, but hey, at least it proves that I am, in fact, still writing, even if it's not fic. I believe this would fall into the "what have you" category.
From "The Rake; Or, letters of Charles Deighton; an essay in fiction, founded on literature":
Interesting that you should consider your “qualms of conscience” obsolete: not so long ago you wrote that it would “wound your conscience” to hurt Miss Wharton; but I am glad to know that you do still have a conscience, whether you admit it or not.
From "Paradise Lost and Found: Eden's Image in Typee Valley" (more than one sentence, but oh, well.) Beware my alliterative skillz:
Toby leads them through a circuitous path around “dark and fearful chasms” and “perpendicular ridges," doubtless designed by nature to keep civilised interlopers from interfering with the innocent inhabitants. When they reach a flowing source of fresh water, the their thirst is not quenched; Tommo describes his drink from the river as “the apples of Sodom turn[ing] to ashes in [his] mouth," though perhaps he identifies the wrong apples; the foul flavour may be the ancient aftertaste of fruit from the tree of knowledge, ruining his experience of the valley’s untouched, Edenic state.
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Comments
I am shocked Teri. I never want to see you substitute a z for an s again. All it does is show how few writing "skillz" you really have! ;)
Btw, what is the Paradise Lost and Found: Eden's Image in Typee Valley thing about?
Well, Anonymous, my "Paradise Lost and Found" paper is an essay discussing the novel "Typee" by Herman Melville, specifically why the Typee Valley and its inhabitants form their own Edenic paradise, and why the Westernised main character cannot/will not be fully immersed in their society.
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