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Style question

9 years ago

Hello everyone.

I'm currently working on a story, but I'm not entirely sure what kind of style of writing you guys enjoy. If you could read the short passage below  and give some constructive feedback on what needs improving, if I should just change the writing style completely, etc. that would be awesome.

Thanks in advance,

HJPike

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The road to Fallum Regus, as scenic as it may be, is tedious. To your left and right are great fields of crop such as sugar and barley with trees scattered sporadic across the landscape. Even farther in distance than the swathes of harvest stand towering mountains, covering the horizon and reaching up to the sky as if to tease man of his mortality.

But, fenced off as the expanses may be, you and Livia occasionally vault over the barriers when in need of a rest, taking solace from the sun whenever possible. She had packed much in the way of food and clothes and luckily for you she remembered your favourite dish was cheese, which she had brought along in copious amounts.

Style question

9 years ago

I can find no problem in the style used, but "sporadic" should be "sporadically".

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9 years ago

Yeah, I did that part not exactly sure whether or not it was correct grammar. I thought it sounded nicer saying sporadic instead of sporadically in that sense, so I just convinced myself it was fine.

Oh well, thanks for the tip though!

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9 years ago

No problem. Adjectives and adverbs are jerks.

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9 years ago
Lolly, lolly, lolly, get your adverbs here...

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9 years ago

I'm honestly fine with any writing style. (Unless it's Shakespeare or something like that.) So yeah, this flows well in my  mind.

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9 years ago

Come now, Shakespeare had his moments. :P