Saturday, November 14, 2009

Writing style

“It was a bit soppy…I left out that bit about her name being entwined around my heart as a rose vine around a cottage door.”

I love Jeeves and Wooster, it is such an amusing show. Stephen Fry as Jeeves is just a treasure; his response to the above about writing love letters is fantastic. I think that at my most sentimental I tend to lapse into prose that evokes the spirit of Jane Austen (in my mind). I like the fact that such language today is a bit playful but also resonates emotionally.

Sometimes I channel Anais Nin instead.

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