Damn my non-linear brain!
Apr. 9th, 2009 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athenaltenaI love it when I use literary devices without meaning. I also keep quoting Sara about what she said about writing:
"Being a writer is accepting that you have voices in your head."
Yeah. Pretty much. But this particular device that I didn't realize I was using is the old echo effect of an event. Er, sort of. The thing it's echoing hasn't been seen yet by us, so technically the event that took place first is echoing the event that took place later, we just see them in opposite order.
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Damn my propensity for non-linear storytelling. I swear it makes sense in context. The idea is supposed to be that you read the thing that comes first in the story, and then when you get to the event it's echoing you have an "Oh..." moment. We'll see how that works in practice.
"Being a writer is accepting that you have voices in your head."
Yeah. Pretty much. But this particular device that I didn't realize I was using is the old echo effect of an event. Er, sort of. The thing it's echoing hasn't been seen yet by us, so technically the event that took place first is echoing the event that took place later, we just see them in opposite order.
...
Damn my propensity for non-linear storytelling. I swear it makes sense in context. The idea is supposed to be that you read the thing that comes first in the story, and then when you get to the event it's echoing you have an "Oh..." moment. We'll see how that works in practice.
