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02/08/2003 Entry: "Another thought"

Upon reflection, the other reason my weblog might sound like my fics is the sheer length of sentences. I swear, they've just been getting longer and longer. I was working on "Sakura" last night, and I ended up with one sentence that was 156 words long. (For comparison, the magazine I work for runs book reviews that are about 500-600 words--my one sentence was about a quarter of that total. ^^;;;) I'd thought it was just particular characters, but really it's all of them, at least the way I write them--this one was Seishirou POV, and he doesn't get breathless and emote-y the way that Subaru and Lan do, but he gets this kind of relentless momentum going that just doesn't stop. And he does lists, especially of the various appealing qualities of a certain green-eyed onmyouji. Fortunately I have finally gotten away from the steak. We're into actual dialogue now! Who'd've thought? With luck, the dialogue will go quickly and easily, and then there's just the groping and the dancing and the vaguely Taoist sex magic. Which reminds me--I need to do some research.