It's all a gamble, y'know?

A big fan of vampires, fantasy, old pulp stories & comics, and Ursula K Le Guin.

i'm not trying to say that it's a raw expression of personality. skill is as much part of the prosaic expression as sensibility. but there's something that is totally the person expressed in the prose. (Assuming they've given the work enough time and thought, etc etc). It's almost like dancing? Each movement in a routine is composed of the precise expression of countless muscles, working in harmony towards a single intentional expression.

I argue that worldbuilding - as in all the stuff of setting that fantasy, scifi, and gothic stories change from the world we know to tell their stories - brings similar defamiliarizing effect to narratives. A reader is forced to grapple with what the artist is saying about our world and culture by showing how people might react to something different.

emerald and amethyst both feel like empty descriptors at this point. If a writer wants to actually evoke jewel tones for me they'll have to be more specific

many such cases. We cannot control the meaning and value others gain from our work. We can just hope to make the work worthy of it