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rynlingAs I continue to distance myself from Tumblr, I've been working on editing the short essays I've posted on a video game blog that I started about a year ago on Wordpress. I'm fully aware that this is a narcissistic thing to say about myself, but I'm impressed by the quality of my writing.
The posts I'm having to put through the most substantial edits are about the Zelda games. Although my writing is fairly intelligible, when I talk about Zelda I tend to lapse into Tumblrese, which can come off as incredibly strange when it's encountered out of context. If I had to guess, I'd say that I was doing this as a defensive strategy to disguise just how much I love the Zelda games, like, Haha I'm writing like an asshole because I'm not taking this seriously. I don't think anyone is fooled, though.
As I move forward, I'm going to need to work on developing my tone. I want to come off as informed and authoritative, but also chill enough that there's still room in my writing for passages like this:
Lenzo's sidequest is a more contained version of the larger quest given to Link by the King of Red Lions. It's also a kinder and gentler version, almost like a window into a parallel universe in which Link isn't persuaded into embarking on a crazy epic murderquest by a talking boat.
I've also started to edit my published fic again. There's really no point to this, and I don't think it's helping me improve as a writer, but I want to leave behind a pretty corpse.
The posts I'm having to put through the most substantial edits are about the Zelda games. Although my writing is fairly intelligible, when I talk about Zelda I tend to lapse into Tumblrese, which can come off as incredibly strange when it's encountered out of context. If I had to guess, I'd say that I was doing this as a defensive strategy to disguise just how much I love the Zelda games, like, Haha I'm writing like an asshole because I'm not taking this seriously. I don't think anyone is fooled, though.
As I move forward, I'm going to need to work on developing my tone. I want to come off as informed and authoritative, but also chill enough that there's still room in my writing for passages like this:
Lenzo's sidequest is a more contained version of the larger quest given to Link by the King of Red Lions. It's also a kinder and gentler version, almost like a window into a parallel universe in which Link isn't persuaded into embarking on a crazy epic murderquest by a talking boat.
I've also started to edit my published fic again. There's really no point to this, and I don't think it's helping me improve as a writer, but I want to leave behind a pretty corpse.
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