Dense Prose or Rich Prose?

[Demesnedenoir]

That would be why I don't watch videos unless it's for a repair on something, LMAO. It stymies my brain how much time people waste on the damned things.

^ This too

I also note how many youtube vids are 10mins when they could say it in 2. Its because of the monetization rules.

 

[Demesnedenoir]

I'm not even sure what you mean... you can pack years into a sentence or pages into a few moments.

The example sentence seems fairly normal to me without context or comparison.

 

[ThinkerX]

I'm not even sure what you mean... you can pack years into a sentence or pages into a few moments.

The example sentence seems fairly normal to me without context or comparison.

I did that in 'Exiles: Pilgrimage.' One of the characters settled down with her toddler in a human village (the only one for thousands of miles), and spent years there living the quiet life as the toddler turned into a preteen. I covered most of that span in a few hundred words.

 

[Finchbearer]

Been reading Steven Norrel and Mr. Strange. It reads, at sentence level, like a nineteenth century author such as Austen, with language most would consider flowery today. The pacing is slower than an ox cart though, with many chapters before the story proper actually begins.

Don’t forget the footnotes!

 

[Finchbearer]

I get the pulp as almost a stylistic choice, but look at the minimalists such as Raymond Carver and Hemingway, they conveyed a lot with such few words, and often using a flat everyday words and language. So,