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Published: 2017-10-20 02:59:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 1139; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 0
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Hara was silent for long enough for Lem to pass around the stone jug one last time, in the dim moonlight and shadows. Then she said, "You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on.""What do you find on the other side? When you go on?"
She shrugged. "Your life again. What else?"
"Is that a promise?"
She picked up a pebble, fingered it, and tossed it into the water. The moon-lines bloomed and danced. "It's an inevitability. No trick. No choice. You just go on.
~Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
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Inktober 2017 Day 16
...as ever, I highly recommend reading the Vorkosigan saga.
On that front, the publisher offers quite a few free (legal!) online samples. I'd recommend giving the first few chapters of The Warrior's Apprentice a try. Or, if you'd prefer to read a fully complete short story, you could try Borders of Infinity .
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This is beautiful! All the different shades and textures you've managed to pull off with just a pen.
I checked out a bit of The Warrior's Apprentice since you've provided a link. And since you keep recommending it. xD But I dunno ... the writing style isn't very engaging for me. Like it doesn't pull me into the character / story. It's just stating things. But I do have very picky taste when it comes to writing style.
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Thank you! And hhh, I'm glad the textures come across. This thing took for freaking ever because of them. ._.
Ah, to each their own I guess! No worries. I'll admit that Bujold's prose isn't the most poetic; most of the interest in her writing style itself comes from the character's thoughts, observations, and internal asides. And those are rather subtly worked into the narration, it's not like the character voice dominates everything like he's directly telling the story or anything.
I'd recommend giving Borders of Infinity a try if you haven't already before calling it quits, though. Her short stories have a slightly different tone to the rest of her writing, and it has a sharper hook. Plus you might find the concept for the setting kind of interesting; it's a rather creative approach to a technological method of maintaining a prison camp.
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My pleasure
Yup, and also I think her writing style suggests she's more story focused than character focused. It's a subtle difference but it seems to be important to me.
Can't find Borders of Infinity online but there's a free sample on amazon so I'll have a deeper look into that when I have time. The beginning doesn't draw me in either but I skimmed a bit and the concept of this dome does interest me. So I'll definitely return to give it another shot.
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