Essay Rec:

[krislaughs]

I know our flists overlap muchly, but if you have not read ignipes's essay:

( Style is a terrible thing to happen to anybody )

go do. It's only -- what, a thousand words give or take? -- and expresses oppinions that people don't often say out loud in this fandom. ignipes expresses them clearly, with humour, and the essay is as fun (or more) to read than any fiction I've come across lately. I feel that properly reviewing an essay is a redundancy of which I am incapable, but I'll give you a taste (if the title alone isn't enough to convince you to read it):

I've never asked around, but it seems to me that most writers tend to think of style as something that happens by accident, or they see it as a shiny new toy with dozens of mysterious buttons begging to be pushed, just to see what happens. If there are writers who believe that style and story are inextricable -- not just complementary -- they don't seem to talk about it much, at least not in a community of amateur writers like the HP fandom.

Read. Join it the discussion. Think about it in relation to what you've read or written. Thank me later. *g*

Comments

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

It's, like, 3000 words or something. But thanks for the plug. :)

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the reminder to go back and read it, and damn well leave a comment even if I didn't think I'd got anything to say. Not a post to leave unanswered, even if there were already 80+ replies by the time I got there.

[krisomniac.livejournal.com]

hehehe. Good on you. I'm afraid I let one of my comments get a little out of hand in the snark department. That'll show me for posting before I've really woken up in the morning. *g*

I generally have a standing rule to shut up if I can't think of something nice to say, but apparently before six-thirty in the morning, it doesn't apply. :-/