I don't even know if those adjectives are right...
Anyways, I just received feeback from a good friend of mine who was the first beta reader of my novel (but I only sent him what I had written, which represents only 1/5th of the book).
He's one of the smartest dudes I know, has a master's in Creative Writing from UMass, and is just someone who I would definitely have read my novel before anyone else.
Anyway, this topic is about one of the comments he left me after praising my novel for a good page (I'm really tootin' my horn here, huh??).
I used the word "prodigality" in one of my scenes. He responded with:
[FONT="](“prodigality”…Faulkner said you need to throw in a few ‘dictionary’ words in every novel, Hemingway never used a word that you couldn’t figure out in context…I tend to agree with Hemingway.)
So everyone the question is... what are you? Faulknerian or a Hemingwayian??
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Anyways, I just received feeback from a good friend of mine who was the first beta reader of my novel (but I only sent him what I had written, which represents only 1/5th of the book).
He's one of the smartest dudes I know, has a master's in Creative Writing from UMass, and is just someone who I would definitely have read my novel before anyone else.
Anyway, this topic is about one of the comments he left me after praising my novel for a good page (I'm really tootin' my horn here, huh??).
I used the word "prodigality" in one of my scenes. He responded with:
[FONT="](“prodigality”…Faulkner said you need to throw in a few ‘dictionary’ words in every novel, Hemingway never used a word that you couldn’t figure out in context…I tend to agree with Hemingway.)
So everyone the question is... what are you? Faulknerian or a Hemingwayian??
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