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rad-roche · 2 months

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i think the scripting part of comics will come easily to me because Noir Pastiching gets you into the habit of excising absolutely every 'unnecessary' word quote unquote. note i don't say a good habit, but a habit. wow, i'm proud of how this sentence came out. unfortunately, i have to shear off most of it with a surgically applied brick.

#text post #there's a fun story about james ellroy with that #(about the only fun story with him in it)#he had to cut 100 pages from la confidential so instead of removing any subplots #he went through and removed every single word that didn't compromise the actual structure of the sentence #you can love it or hate it but i'll say this: you for sure know when you're reading something that guy wrote #i'm making these posts like i have a big thing planned but it'll all be me playing around for a while #maybe i'll do bits of the fic! why write something. i already writed it

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