Dude, did any of the ones you used have lists of synonyms for every single color? And flowery synonyms for various parts of the body? AND SOMETIMES JUST STRAIGHT-UP USE LATIN? I also remember there being this weird tendency to describe actions and expressions like all the body parts were just moving independently in a vacuum. A combination of passive voice and just... general weirdness. "AMBER SPHERES ROLLED HEAVENWARD" "PAWS STRUCK THE GROUND"
There really was a specific and highly peculiar style they were cultivating, now that I'm thinking of it. I only joined because they advertised as being for ADVANCED people and I considered myself ADVANCED so clearly I belonged there. And then I got sucked in. :|a
(I'm considering posting my own, but none of my pre-2005 writing survives and I'm not sure how much has changed since then. Maybe I've learned to be a bit more subtle, but I think I've been stagnating for a while all the big things were in place by the time I started high school.)
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Re: GONNA GO OFF ON A TANGENT HERE, SORRY
Date: 2013-03-20 12:16 am (UTC)There really was a specific and highly peculiar style they were cultivating, now that I'm thinking of it. I only joined because they advertised as being for ADVANCED people and I considered myself ADVANCED so clearly I belonged there. And then I got sucked in. :|a
(I'm considering posting my own, but none of my pre-2005 writing survives and I'm not sure how much has changed since then. Maybe I've learned to be a bit more subtle, but I think
I've been stagnating for a whileall the big things were in place by the time I started high school.)