I prefer the first/longer version -- it's got the added extras, the additional imagery, the few extra seconds of prolonged pleasure .... And it does sound more like you, V.
I enjoy rich tapestries of story -- when I'm reading. When I'm writing, however, I'm far more likely to write tightly and succinctly (vignette, drabble, haiku) -- because my mind runs ahead of me, my coherent composition lags behind, and to some extent, I bore myself with the mechanics of telling the tale. And if I'm bored, my readers must be too, right? Well, no, I know that doesn't follow logically; but that's how my muse natters at me .... I truly admire and enjoy your long, complex, involved historical A/C stuff, V., but I usually despair of ever emulating you.
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I prefer the first/longer version -- it's got the added extras, the additional imagery, the few extra seconds of prolonged pleasure .... And it does sound more like you, V.
I enjoy rich tapestries of story -- when I'm reading. When I'm writing, however, I'm far more likely to write tightly and succinctly (vignette, drabble, haiku) -- because my mind runs ahead of me, my coherent composition lags behind, and to some extent, I bore myself with the mechanics of telling the tale. And if I'm bored, my readers must be too, right? Well, no, I know that doesn't follow logically; but that's how my muse natters at me .... I truly admire and enjoy your long, complex, involved historical A/C stuff, V., but I usually despair of ever emulating you.