urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
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urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
7d ago
Interesting. I liked the first 2/3 of the first book, but the big plot twist… just felt obvious, and played out — of course the religious authorities are hiding important truths!!! Maybe it didn’t help that the audiobook version I was listening to gave the (linguist? archaeologist? I can’t remember) crush this blistering Scottish accent that wasn’t the least bit feminine, which combined with her standoffishness made it hard to see what Hadrian saw in her. I felt bad for the other girl.
I guess the elements I liked were the parts where the protagonist had to navigate court politics. Once he ends up stranded, the intrigue felt less interesting.
I have no clue how people write the posts that are full of lurid personal stories and read like actual short stories or memoirs. They often seem insanely polished, but also I'm a very boring person, and it's an exciting day when I get to pull ethernet drops.
But for myself, when I write a long post, it's usually because I was compelled to write something for its own sake. I'm often writing for myself as much as for anyone else. Someone says something I disagree with, or that I think is cruel, or that I think is deeply right, or that affects me emotionally, and I have to write to get it out of my head and actually describe how I think I should respond to it. I write because that's how I figure out what I believe, and I can't stop until I've actually gotten the idea out and neatly summarized it. I'm usually thinking eight paragraphs ahead to all the other things that have popped into my head and trying to get everything out. If I don't do that, I have to sit with the emotion unresolved. So when I do write a long post, it's more of a compulsion than a craft.
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