nothuntress replied to your post: “( out of tricks. ) reading purple prose when ur esl with add aka...”:
english is my first language and i feel that way sometimes. like to each their own but dear lord. sometimes its just too much
grumpybartender replied to your post: “( out of tricks. ) reading purple prose when ur esl with add aka...”:
same, I have a hard enough time concentrating and running a blog in the first place and when I read purple prose I'm like.... "so that whole paragraph meant your character sat down K cool"
i actually don’t mind if people spend a long time describing an action --- an action, like sitting down, not a tick or a body function like breathing or blinking --- for as long as the description contains other stuff one can react to. like if you spend a paragraph telling how ‘their hand wavers as they take a hold of the chair, breathing being too fast, eyes looking everywhere as they sit down’... that’s okay, bc that has four things the other person can have their muse notice or react to, or not notice but still bring substance to the thread.
it’s when you are spending a paragraph telling about ‘soft pillars of your muse’s hand and abstract darks that cast on the chair as navy blue denim collides with wood’ when i have a problem with you
i feel like this has gotten worse with the ‘aesthetic writing’ that’s just throwing random metaphors that have nice imagery in them into otherwise perfectly good writing with little regard of whether or not they actually fit the situation