Monday 21 November 2022

Creative Writing Tips


In today's world, the overblown
Victorian style of writing 
is out of fashion.

But should it be?

Creativity and imagination
can boost the most prosaic
of expressions and sentiments!

Behold these stellar examples!







43 comments:

Marie Smith said...

Leave him home!

Val Ewing said...

This potion will help you on your quest...yes, I'll use that next time I have to sort meds for hubby!

Love it!
I think Victorian writing sure has a fun place in our language!

Travel said...

Should I spend my last year working, creating memorable memos?

Bob said...

I kinda like the overwrought Victorian style.

Boud said...

This could really change texting.

G. B. Miller said...

Absolutely adored Victorian language at my first state job (prepping newspapers for microfilming). The clipped haughtiness that one could inflict with a mere twist of a word or two was absolutely brilliant. The description of a simple scene described above was breathtaking.

Loved it so much, I featured that type of speaking style with a MC from one of my novels whenever she was seriously annoyed with someone and didn't want to use George Carlin's Seven Words You Can't Say On Television.

Hena Tayeb said...

haha these are all great. I am reading some historical fiction right now and they talk exactly like that..

Moving with Mitchell said...

I adore you! I have a long overdue email to write. It is going to begin “Darkness took me...”

Mike said...

Wednesday! HA! 😄

BootsandBraids said...

LOL at that last one or should I say “I was loquaciously entertained by the rhetoric relayed in the illustration relating to hump day, the third day in the week of our lord”.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ BootsandBraids -- Clearly you have this gift as well!

Mistress Maddie said...

I say yes let's go back to the Victorian way! And I'm all for layering of clothes honey!

roentare said...

You have revealed the power of words and expressions. So good examples!

Sixpence Notthewiser said...

YES!!
OMG I would love to write EVERY POST in this style.


XOXO

Joanne Noragon said...

Gertrude Stein. I could name a lot more, but I'd rather go to bed.

Laura Morrigan said...

I always prefer the dramatic ways of saying things, but I am dramatic! And haunted by ancestral curses!

River said...

I agree we could spice things up instead of being boring but there is also the worry that we will go too far and the reader may toss the book because there is too much "description" and not enough actual story.
Those who manage to find that perfect balance are to be commended.

Janie Junebug said...

I love these, especially let the hate flow through you. So much better than telling people to calm down, which I never do because it only makes them more upset. I need to make more of an effort to use Victorian style or at least write the way Jane Austen did.

Love for always and forever to my dearest, most darling Debra, from your most sincere and enlightened friend,
Janie Junebug

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ Janie Junebug -- As always, dear correspondent, your erudite and witty bon mots bring a smile to my, alas, aging visage. I remain your most humble and devoted servant, Debra She Who Seeketh.

Busy Bee Suz said...

These are so great...makes my verbiage sound childish and boring.

Yvonne said...

Fun post to read. I tend to write a little Victorianish, then my word program keeps trying to get me to shorten a group of words to something simplier.

Rawknrobyn.blogspot.com said...

I'm adopting "Good, good, let the hate flow through you!" as my new mantra.
Thank you, Debra.

Tundra Bunny said...

Oh, dear, dear Deborah, what is not to admire in your tenacious search for pugnacious bees and the meaning of life whilst still producing doggerel in vast quantities by which to entertain, nay, amuse your readership? Alas, I too, am among the few remaining verbose Romantics left in civilization.... now where is my *$#@!*% quill?!

yellowdoggranny said...

oh that last one took me out...I laughed so hard.

Guillaume said...

Good advices.

Adam said...

Creative writing was one of my favorites in high school

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ Tundra Bunny -- Quoth the Raven, "Fuque off, Hairball, those are MY quills, I mean, feathers!"

Tundra Bunny said...

HAIRBALL or HAREBALL? Tis of no import... Methinks thou hast confused me with HRH in thine dotage!

Kirk said...

Ernest Hemingway is spinning in his grave, but I enjoyed this post.

I liked that style most when it came from Charles Dickens quill. His prose was purple and witty at the same time.

The Happy Whisk said...

This potion will help your quest! That's funny and sounds like when Tim and the guys play D&D.

The Captain said...

I love the idea of bringing more creativity into basic writing. Would make the hum drum work email exciting.

Martha said...

The one with the potion is the best! I'll have to remember that one.

baili said...

Haha the first one is my fave
With age writing is task gets harder not because of lack of creativity but knee pain that make me slow in all other chores with no time for writing lol

Barbara said...

I confess, I do love the flowery writing but everything changes and we have to go with it. Have you ever read Walter Mosley. I love his writing style/sentence structure.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ Barbara -- No, I've never read any of Walter Mosley's books, but thanks for the recommendation! I did see the movie they made of his novel "Devil in a Blue Dress" though.

lissa said...

If staring at my computer screen is writing, then I have been writing way too much. Writing is hard even for those who have done it for years, at least, it's what they say.

These are amusing advices. I have always enojy whatever you post.

Have a lovely day.

e said...

Late for the train, I scramble aboard nonetheless, breathless from my most recent endeavors but determined to catch up with the witty and erudite mistress of letters known as She who Seeks. Ah, to seek! To seek and find is a worthy goal, but simply to seek is divine. I may lack the hours given to a day or a month to be able to set my quill to paper, or my fingers to keyboard as we do in this modern age, to respond to every one of my good lady's missives, but this one I could not leave unanswered.
As always, dear Debra, you entertain and enlighten and provide for your worthy readers a trove of responses to the travails of life, all of which are amusing, some of which profound, many to be retold with great relish by your devoted acolytes, myself included.
With great admiration and respect and a cheeky grin, I remain, your humble servant and electronic friend,
E

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ e -- I bow to your loquaciousness!

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Fundy Blue said...

Too funny, Debra! I am at a loss for words.

Laura said...

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love & magicks
~*~

Rommy said...

When it's time to tell my kids to come down to eat I text them something like, "Spawn, arise and join your sire and I for the feast!"

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ Rommy -- Forsooth, I'm sure the fruit of your loins must instantly obey such a commanding invitation!