A Critical Dragon | Talking about Writing: Ships of Merior by Janny Wurts (Wars of Light and Shadow Book Two) @ACriticalDragon | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 22 minutes ago.
It has been a while since I looked at some writing close up.
So this is a short video about a few paragraphs taken from Janny Wurts' Wars of Light and Shadow Book Two Ships of Merior.
I wanted to talk a little about how sentence structure and content can be altered to provide different effects, generate a sense of pacing, and subtly implant ideas in a reader's mind without them realising how it is done.
Plus I talk a little bit about how the use of white space around text can be made to create effects.
As per usual I also touch on subjective perspective providing information about the person doing the observing, their biases, as well as the information about the thing that they are observing.
All in all, it was fun to talk about some of the writing techniques that Wurts employs with great effect in her writing.


If you want to read the whole extract it is available here: paravia.com/JannyWurts/books/wolas-02-shipsMerior.php

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Intro and Music by Professor Trip.