#because its surreal like a dream and fleeting and more about the internal mental experience of events than the concrete reality

[mejomonster]

Sometimes I need to remind myself there's a lot of writing styles and different writing choices create different effects and if that's the intention then it's okay to do it differently from say X other person, since that person's style choice may not be to create the same effect as another writer's

Like. Haruki Murakami and Stephen King are not doing the same things, not trying to accomplish the same things. There is a reason one writer may intend to let dialogue do the heavy lifting and leave descriptions absent unless utterly necessary, only the most vital pieces written such as core actions. While another author might revel in pages of description, the setting they place their scenes in being its own character and such a tremendous influence on the point of the story. The author who picks to make time feel unreal and hard to grab and plays with time skips and back and forth for a particular effect, and the one who is much more concrete about time and the when's (perhaps for a murder mystery where the facts of the case are critical). Just because your writing choices are not identical to the choices of those you may admire, does not make them wrong. Your own particular piece of writing, in that moment in time, has its own goals that need to be achieved in their own ways.

#writing advice #mainly myself so lol feel free to ignore but certainlh do NOT take any of this as a hard rule #just like. ive been thinking about how Anne Rice involves the settings like characters #as does Priest. Priest covers times in very concrete ways because shes writing murder mysteries where #part of the thrill of the reader is to figure out the evidence and details too. #meanwhile an author like murakami may rarely give concrete time #because its surreal like a dream and fleeting and more about the internal mental experience of events than the concrete reality #an author like Sarah Waters in fingersmith uses 2 distinct VERY unreliable biased narrators for one of the BEST reading experiences ive #ever had. while plenty of novels choose a much more reliable single narrator to tell a clear less anbiguous story #and all those writing choices are different because theyre intended to have different effects. #the only Real problem is when you aim to have X effect with a particular choice but it is Not working #and then you have to decide to either change the writing choice to one that better creates X effect #or practice X writing choice because you feel some aspect of it youre doing poorly and not good enough to Get intended effect #or you simply run into the issue of Generally not knowjng how to get the effect you desire and itll take some experimenting #or may simply not be achieved in that particular project. and you need more practice. which this project may become