Sunday, July 01, 2018

My Guilty Secret


I know I'm an English professor, but the minute I read in a review that someone's prose is "lush" or "ornate," I roll my eyes and cross that sucker off my list forever.

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4 comments:

Bardiac said...

Ha! I never know what "lush" prose is supposed to look like. For ornate, I think Lyly... because I'm 400 years behind.

3:09 PM
delagar said...


I always think, probably because I came up in New Orleans, of overgrown kudzu, thick heavy lawns, and bushes swarming with tangles of fat juicy flowers.

NOT what I'm after in my fiction, though I guess some people are.

3:32 PM
Nicoleandmaggie said...

I like the word lush combined with the words “chocolate mousse”

7:42 PM
delagar said...


Hee!

10:11 AM

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