I'd love to hear a lovely piano piece and suddenly there’s a note from a harpsichord. I reckon that'd sound pukka.
I use very common vocabulary and language. There's a poetry to it. Bit of slang here and there, but old-school. I grew up with it. But I do also occasionally use unusual esoteric words. Strange words for a hallucinatory states of altered perception, etc. Visions. Sometimes, old Mystic and Theistic, sometimes, old thieves slang.
It may look odd with the common language. It makes sense with the storytelling. And there are those of us who exist among the underclass ranks of rogues and villains who are also Mystic and schizo and know them words and use them well, old-school slang of crooks, madmen, and enchanters scattered among the common lingo. Dunno what others think of it, but I seem to get away with it, at least with them who like my work.
I wonder if it looks jarring to other people reading it. It seems to work for me, but that might be because I know them words. Last book published, the proof reader thought I misspelt puppet, but I meant poppet (European version of a Voodoo Doll), and them changing it took away the meaning of that moment. Lucky I clocked it, but them things are easily missed. I suppose they didn't know what it meant and didn't expect it in among the common words.
I'd love to hear a lovely piano piece and suddenly there’s a note from a harpsichord. I reckon that'd sound pukka.
I use very common vocabulary and language. There's a poetry to it. Bit of slang here and there, but old-school. I grew up with it. But I do also occasionally use unusual esoteric words. Strange words for a hallucinatory states of altered perception, etc. Visions. Sometimes, old Mystic and Theistic, sometimes, old thieves slang.
It may look odd with the common language. It makes sense with the storytelling. And there are those of us who exist among the underclass ranks of rogues and villains who are also Mystic and schizo and know them words and use them well, old-school slang of crooks, madmen, and enchanters scattered among the common lingo. Dunno what others think of it, but I seem to get away with it, at least with them who like my work.
I wonder if it looks jarring to other people reading it. It seems to work for me, but that might be because I know them words. Last book published, the proof reader thought I misspelt puppet, but I meant poppet (European version of a Voodoo Doll), and them changing it took away the meaning of that moment. Lucky I clocked it, but them things are easily missed. I suppose they didn't know what it meant and didn't expect it in among the common words.
Ha, I wrote about something very similar myself today!