Where Angels Fear
Aug 23, 2017 · 2 min read

> But there’s still a difference in my mind between getting influenced by visual story telling, and getting influenced by written story telling. It’s very easy to pick up and carry a writer’s flow and turn of phrase. It’s not so easy to do the same with a movie/video because you are translating it to a different medium. Stealing ideas, concepts and/or atmosphere is not the same as stealing a writer’s style.

Hmmmm …

I’m not gonna disagree with you entirely, because I agree with the main thrust of your argument there.

But … [1]

Although you are translating into a different medium, do you not find, when reading that you see the story … the characters and their environment … in your mind’s eye …. that you experience things visually rather than linguistically as such?

And, when you are conceiving/writing, is your experience not similarly visual … not to say cinematic?

[1] There had to be a ‘but’ [2]

[2] And a footnote [3]

[3] Multiple footnotes in fact [4]

[4] Self-referential ones too [5] [20]

[5] Because all four are, after all, my style, are they not? [6]

[6] To be fair, I stole the idea from Pratchett originally [7]

[7] But I certainly then ran with them [8]

[8] And turned them into an art-form in their own right …. beyond anything even he did with them.

[9] Oh … and ellipses! [10]

[10] They’re my style too [11]

[11] And unreferenced footnotes [12]

[12] Like ‘[9]’ above [13]

[13] Which you’ve just read anyway [14]

[14] Without even meaning to [15]

[15] Because I craft them especially to make you do that [16]

[16] Preferably without even realising it [17]

[17] ‘Rape’ is such an emotive word [18] [19]

[18] Let’s call it ‘seduction’ instead, shall we?

[19] And uncalled for off-colour remarks when you least expect it

[20] Not to mention branching footnotes [21]

[21] They’re a speciality as well [22]

[22] But I think that’ll do now [23] [24]

[23] Don’t you?

[24] I’ve lost the plot! [25]

[25] Ha! [26]

[26] See what did there? ;-D

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