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[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

...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.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

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".

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Desertway

Misery by Stephen King is $2.99 at Amazon (US. I don't know about elsewhere.)

Kobo as well. Misery by Stephen King.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

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.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

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.

[salty-horse]

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[salty-horse]

Cross-posted to SFF and "everything else".
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Literary horror. Translated by Anton Hur. Review by Ian Mond

Equal parts bone-chilling, wryly funny and deeply political, The Midnight Timetable is a masterful work of literary horror from one of our time's greatest imaginations.

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 . . .

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[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

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