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The_Solipsist
05-06-2009, 1:10 PM
Just a short musing. This is part of a larger project, so elements are missing, but you should get the idea. Anyways, critique, if you would:


As we walked along the side of the river, her shrill baritone gave me a startle. O how lovely is this weather, so gray, so massive, so heavy. Feels like I've walked into concrete and straight on through.

Her voice was pensive and deliberate, as though she actually felt this. She would conjecture like this, and I would listen- to the best of my ability, which, most of the time, meant little, if at all. I asked if she had ever considered what seeing things in the sunlight might show. Looking up I saw that my remark had made not a single dent in her defiance.

The mud became thicker further down the river, so we walked up the bank and onto a hill. We lay on the grass, soft and sifting, and continued our lopsided dialogue.

Audioslave
05-06-2009, 6:08 PM
Not very good. Word choice is clunky, verb tenses are messed up ("As we walked..." vs. "Feels like...") and there's absolutely nothing to it, nothing to inspire any emotions or feeling whatsoever.

The_Solipsist
05-06-2009, 7:11 PM
Not very good. Word choice is clunky, verb tenses are messed up ("As we walked..." vs. "Feels like...") and there's absolutely nothing to it, nothing to inspire any emotions or feeling whatsoever.

She's speaking, that's why the tenses aren't correct there. I'm revising it to fix the diction, there's a bit I need to clean up on, but what can you say in particular?

Audioslave
05-06-2009, 7:49 PM
What I've said before. It doesn't express anything. There's nothing behind it, it's merely a snapshot of two people I really don't care about, doing nothing interesting and not described in a way that would make me care.

Casalen
05-06-2009, 8:56 PM
Words that say nothing, trying too hard to seem otherwise. Maybe it's better in context, but this post doesn't have that.