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strange_selkie, whom I suspect of inventing it herself. If not, it still entertained me.
Ten ways to tell you’re reading one of my stories.
1) The sentences go on forever.
2) The paragraphs go on forever.
3) People breathe weirdly. In classical Greek thought, reason and emotions are located in the chest. (What is this "brain" of which you speak?) In my fiction, we've moved up to the throat: that's not strep, it's obsession.
4) Obsession. If no one's fixated, it ain't mine.
5) The sea. If there isn't at least an oceanic simile, ditto.
6) The otherworld; the underworld; the liminal, littoral spaces between.
7) Did I mention that the colon and the semicolon are close personal friends of mine? Usually in the same sentence. The period is so depressingly final.
8) If all the characters are verifiably human, you've found a rarity. If all the characters are verifiably happy, you've found another author.
9) Not only can I tell you exactly what songs went into each story, they are more than likely embedded somewhere in the text already. In like manner, there is almost always some specific bit of myth or folklore that provoked the story: and I can tell you that, too. But generally one of the characters does first.
10) It's been published in Not One of Us.
Anything important I left out?
strange_selkie, whom I suspect of inventing it herself. If not, it still entertained me.Ten ways to tell you’re reading one of my stories.
1) The sentences go on forever.
2) The paragraphs go on forever.
3) People breathe weirdly. In classical Greek thought, reason and emotions are located in the chest. (What is this "brain" of which you speak?) In my fiction, we've moved up to the throat: that's not strep, it's obsession.
4) Obsession. If no one's fixated, it ain't mine.
5) The sea. If there isn't at least an oceanic simile, ditto.
6) The otherworld; the underworld; the liminal, littoral spaces between.
7) Did I mention that the colon and the semicolon are close personal friends of mine? Usually in the same sentence. The period is so depressingly final.
8) If all the characters are verifiably human, you've found a rarity. If all the characters are verifiably happy, you've found another author.
9) Not only can I tell you exactly what songs went into each story, they are more than likely embedded somewhere in the text already. In like manner, there is almost always some specific bit of myth or folklore that provoked the story: and I can tell you that, too. But generally one of the characters does first.
10) It's been published in Not One of Us.
Anything important I left out?
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