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Old 10-25-2025, 10:32 AM   #3166
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...and yet some writers - the lazy ones, I might add - continue to do just that.

Oh, and don't forget the reflective pool of water!
Or sometimes very clever ones.
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And don't forget how mirrors are used to offer writers an easy way to describe their character(s)!
Silly as that can be, I've noticed a trend in more modern fiction to just not describe things at all. I hate that. Give me the "he checked out his shoulder length brown hair in the mirror".
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Silly as that can be, I've noticed a trend in more modern fiction to just not describe things at all. I hate that. Give me the "he checked out his shoulder length brown hair in the mirror".
I'm not here to promote, but the seemingly constant overuse by writers was so hilarious that I purposely overused it in a short piece I wrote.

I still contend that writers who use this are creatively bankrupt. And not clever.

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Silly as that can be, I've noticed a trend in more modern fiction to just not describe things at all. I hate that. Give me the "he checked out his shoulder length brown hair in the mirror".
Both are lazy.
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In a labyrinthine research facility, where those who open the wrong door might find it's disappeared behind them or that the echoing footsteps they're running from are their own, an unnamed protagonist begins their night shift under the watchful eye of the building's enigmatic senior guard.

Each evening, as the fluorescent lights flicker and the silence grows heavier, the guard shares another tale of cursed objects and lives unspooled by vengeance, sorrow or revelation. But these are not mere ghost stories. They're warnings. Lessons. Or, perhaps, confessions . . .

As the nights stretch on and reality frays, our protagonist starts to suspect that the building itself is alive with malevolent intent and that the objects they guard aren't just cursed. They're waiting. Watching.
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