[quote] I had never read a single story in this genre — not that I’m saying it doesn’t exist, just that I never found one — where Tony is not only Xander’s father, but that there’s absolutely, positively nothing supernatural about Tony, Jessica, or Xander. [/quote]
There was one where Xander turned out to be Angel's kidnapped son, hurled back in time as an infant and left in the hospital for the Harris' to pick up by mistake. I remember thinking that it was actually an interesting twist...
[quote] Nicholas Brendon, according to his own profile, has hazel eyes, not brown. [/quote]
Eh. The word, she says hazel, the eyes, they look brown. I'm on the side of brown.
[quote] Plus, I like the cadence of how “bright, bright, bright” sounds when you say it out loud. [/quote]
The speaker's 'Rule of Three,' I (over) use it often! I usually pick three different adjectives to string together, 'though.
Neat stuff. Every now and then I reread something of mine and think of the creative process that led to my choosing this phrasing or that, so it's neat to me to see someone else do this. It's cool to see how the words on the page stand-in for a lot of stuff that is unwritten and needs to be actively inferred by the reader (and if it's well-written, as this story is, each paragraph ends up conveying a lot more information through subtext and deeper meaning than the words printed would add up to).
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[quote] I had never read a single story in this genre — not that I’m saying it doesn’t exist, just that I never found one — where Tony is not only Xander’s father, but that there’s absolutely, positively nothing supernatural about Tony, Jessica, or Xander. [/quote]
There was one where Xander turned out to be Angel's kidnapped son, hurled back in time as an infant and left in the hospital for the Harris' to pick up by mistake. I remember thinking that it was actually an interesting twist...
[quote] Nicholas Brendon, according to his own profile, has hazel eyes, not brown. [/quote]
Eh. The word, she says hazel, the eyes, they look brown. I'm on the side of brown.
[quote] Plus, I like the cadence of how “bright, bright, bright” sounds when you say it out loud. [/quote]
The speaker's 'Rule of Three,' I (over) use it often! I usually pick three different adjectives to string together, 'though.
Neat stuff. Every now and then I reread something of mine and think of the creative process that led to my choosing this phrasing or that, so it's neat to me to see someone else do this. It's cool to see how the words on the page stand-in for a lot of stuff that is unwritten and needs to be actively inferred by the reader (and if it's well-written, as this story is, each paragraph ends up conveying a lot more information through subtext and deeper meaning than the words printed would add up to).