I was also lucky to dodge the constructive criticism bullet. I put a note on a couple of the first things I posted saying that I was "interested in corrections regarding language, history, and culture," and the hesitant and apologetic way that people offered corrections made me realize that there was some sort of...not quite taboo about it, but etiquette that I didn't understand. So I tread carefully. But if I hadn't realized that, I might have put my foot in it.
Yes, I think the main question about craft is, does it work? I look at things I wrote a year ago, and they're very obviously clunkier than most of what I'm writing now, so apparently I've learned something, but I'm not sure what. I have a book of writing exercises by Ursula Le Guin that I bought because I'm a completist but never really looked at. She's generally not prescriptive about craft.
Re the Anglican church, I don't think what I need is anything very arcane. Basically, I'm dealing with Susan Pevensie's first Christmas after The Accident, and she's going to midnight mass. Any thoughts on theology would be from her point of view, and therefore would be a layperson's and not especially sophisticated. It's just that the only service of the Anglican Communion I've ever attended was an Episcopal service many years ago, and I remember almost nothing of it. (I went because a boy I had a crush on invited me.) I've found a lot of information about the order of services, and even a very helpful video of the eucharist from the London Internet Church (!), and I've just found a very useful article on a particular Anglican figure I'm interested in. It's more the experiential part that I'm concerned about, because I am not religious myself, let alone an Anglican. I'd like to know if it feels right.
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Date: 2014-12-10 07:41 pm (UTC)Yes, I think the main question about craft is, does it work? I look at things I wrote a year ago, and they're very obviously clunkier than most of what I'm writing now, so apparently I've learned something, but I'm not sure what. I have a book of writing exercises by Ursula Le Guin that I bought because I'm a completist but never really looked at. She's generally not prescriptive about craft.
Re the Anglican church, I don't think what I need is anything very arcane. Basically, I'm dealing with Susan Pevensie's first Christmas after The Accident, and she's going to midnight mass. Any thoughts on theology would be from her point of view, and therefore would be a layperson's and not especially sophisticated. It's just that the only service of the Anglican Communion I've ever attended was an Episcopal service many years ago, and I remember almost nothing of it. (I went because a boy I had a crush on invited me.) I've found a lot of information about the order of services, and even a very helpful video of the eucharist from the London Internet Church (!), and I've just found a very useful article on a particular Anglican figure I'm interested in. It's more the experiential part that I'm concerned about, because I am not religious myself, let alone an Anglican. I'd like to know if it feels right.