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K.Lynn Grey's avatar

I'm an unsophisticated American, so I'll stick with the Lewis Carrol reference :P And yes, I realize he's British...

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P.Q. Rubin's avatar

It all checks out then! 😅

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Lara's avatar

Everything is so detailed.

That’s something I struggle with— adding adjectives to describe things with more detail.

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P.Q. Rubin's avatar

Thanks! It's a struggle you and I share.

My first solution was to ask the AI:

1) Name a good author who uses lots of descriptive adjectives [and other style elements I want]

2) Write a story in the style of said author about [whatever]

What you're reading here is a more fancy version of just that. 😄

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K.Lynn Grey's avatar

I'm surprised none of the characters got a concussion... :) "The words hung heavy in the air like ripe mangoes."

I'm also not sure what "In the warp and weft" meant, though it did lend a nice Jabberwocky vibe.

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P.Q. Rubin's avatar

The "warp and weft" may be a cultural thing, I'm told it's more commonly used in British English... especially in the 1920s. I don't know about Nigerian English though.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=warp+and+weft%3Aeng_us%2C+warp+and+weft%3Aeng_gb&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en-GB&smoothing=3

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