On writing
Oct. 16th, 2017 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartI think I just had a revelation recently.
When I started writing in English, about a decade and a half ago, when the Tolkien fandom was on its film-induced boost, I used to hear people complaining about run-in sentences left, right and center. That made me very nervous; firstly because I tend to build long, complicated sentences (which is an infestation from German literary language, I think), and secondly because I used to be even more insecure about my English than I'm now.
However, recently I read a lot of fanfic in the Sherlock fandom, and I think I finally begin to understand what all those people meant all those years ago. There are interesting stories that I actually like, but they make me incredibly tired after a couple of chapters, because the author writes in a hectic manner that make it hard to make out the individual sentences.
Considering that these authors are usually native English speakers, I think I'm not doing all that bad, in comparison.
When I started writing in English, about a decade and a half ago, when the Tolkien fandom was on its film-induced boost, I used to hear people complaining about run-in sentences left, right and center. That made me very nervous; firstly because I tend to build long, complicated sentences (which is an infestation from German literary language, I think), and secondly because I used to be even more insecure about my English than I'm now.
However, recently I read a lot of fanfic in the Sherlock fandom, and I think I finally begin to understand what all those people meant all those years ago. There are interesting stories that I actually like, but they make me incredibly tired after a couple of chapters, because the author writes in a hectic manner that make it hard to make out the individual sentences.
Considering that these authors are usually native English speakers, I think I'm not doing all that bad, in comparison.
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Date: 2017-10-20 10:45 pm (UTC)