Fonts, fonts, and more fonts
Blackletter, Jott, Nadine, Old Century, Rockstone, Serpentine, Snell, Tribune, Zapf Chancery . . . Continue reading “Fonts, fonts, and more fonts”
Steal from the best
Another plagiarism incident. It seems pretty clear this one was no accident.
Sometimes text does get repeated unintentionally. One of my characters says, “You must trust me as I have trusted you.” I wrote this a couple of years ago. Wouldn’t you know it, I read The Tombs of Atuan, and that darn Le Guin woman wrote something almost exactly the same. I’m going to give her the benefit of the doubt and believe she wrote it by accident. Great minds, so on.
I considered changing the text in my story, but that character would say that in just those words. Fukafukafuka. For later worry.
Anaphora excess
I was having a heck of a time reading this one book. The story was sort of interesting, but it dragged and dragged and dragged and dragged…
Well, no wonder. The writing was overloaded with repetition — pages and pages of the same phrases used over and over. I thought, well, this is a multiple viewpoint story. Maybe it’s just this one character’s voice.
For the heck of it I read paragraph by paragraph through three consecutive chapters that had different POVs. Gee whomping whillikers. After analyzing those chapters, even skillful use of repetition makes me wince.
For your reading pleasure, here are the relevant chapter bits: Continue reading “Anaphora excess”
