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The_Solipsist
03-19-2009, 9:40 PM
This is something I wrote one night. I'd like to turn it into something much bigger. There are many points I need to clean up, some imagery that needs to be more distinguishable, but critique for me, if you will:



You opened the window, and jumped out. As you landed, your legs became of your consciousness. The grass was dry, lifeless, slivers of sand. This did not please you, so you turned it to glass. You walked upon the smoldering earth, and lifted your eyes. The sky was blue. You writhed in disgust, bellowing so loud and full that the sky became gray. As you breathed, you felt the air around you. Warm, moving, the wind spoke and whispered as you turned your head and felt it whistle sweet lies into your ears. Such defiance you would not withstand. You thrust you fists against the stratus, and Boreas birthed a cacophonous squall. The ice crawled up your arms with its tiny feet. You smiled and smiled such a bright smile that it shown to those so far above as a reckoning, and those so far below as misguided hope. O what a pleasant thought, you smile to yourself further, to be in such a world. The wind, so abject and distraught, catches itself in your ears, wailing, praying for resolve. Annoying, you whisper to yourself, and the wind dies and dies, letting loose the stench of a spring, the stench of flowers, of the damp ground, of the rotting penance they sprang from so readily.

SizzlingNickel
03-19-2009, 10:32 PM
I don't know what this is getting at but i think you describe the things in the setting very nicely.Sorry if i am not much help.

Audioslave
03-19-2009, 10:38 PM
I can't read a story written in the second person, it makes me think I'm a Choose Your Own adventure. Sorry, it's just obnoxious.

The_Solipsist
03-19-2009, 10:45 PM
I can't read a story written in the second person, it makes me think I'm a Choose Your Own adventure. Sorry, it's just obnoxious.

I didn't really want it to be directly second person, more so someone telling you what you're doing. I'm deciding how to do this, but this is just the first bit.

Audioslave
03-19-2009, 11:45 PM
I didn't really want it to be directly second person, more so someone telling you what you're doing. I'm deciding how to do this, but this is just the first bit.

Someone telling you something is the second person. The use of 'You' is second person. It's a horrific style of writing and should never be used ever.

Sieda
03-19-2009, 11:47 PM
I think it would work much better in a more poetic form. Maybe add some sort or rhythm or structure to give a dream like feeling.

tunacake
03-20-2009, 12:13 AM
Someone telling you something is the second person. The use of 'You' is second person. It's a horrific style of writing and should never be used ever.

Second person always makes me wonder why on earth I would ever need somebody to tell me a story about something I already did.

The_Solipsist
03-20-2009, 9:50 AM
I think it would work much better in a more poetic form. Maybe add some sort or rhythm or structure to give a dream like feeling.

I'm considering this.


Audio, I want to give a sense of puppeting, of control. I'm not sure how to convey this totally, but I don't see how using another perspective would work any better.

Sherbetcat
03-22-2009, 3:44 PM
I'm not sure how to convey this totally, but I don't see how using another perspective would work any better.

Well, this perspective really isn't working, so at least you'd have nothing to lose.


It has potential, but it isn't overly interesting or eye-catching. Didn't will me to read.