Writer's Block: Love This Artist
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A writer, without a doubt, but which one? All of my favorites paint the world with such different strokes, and yet each of them is "full worthy" (oh my god, I just quoted Chaucer out of context) of the praise that they get.
J. K. Rowling's the most popular of my favorite artists, and I feel like she's probably the most mainstream now, although she wasn't always. She was the genre-maker, the one who defined an entirely new school of art and pioneered her way through it. And she did it well.
Diane Duane I would say is probably an oil painter, with vivid details standing out so greatly in her work that there isn't a single word put to waste. Every time I read something she's written I learn more about myself.
Julie E. Czerneda works almost like a watercolor artist, but her medium is the human (or alien) heart in all its complexities -- her books are written directly from their subjects' blood and tears and hopes.
Jim Butcher's got the feel of a nitty-gritty sketch artist, who works in black and white but mostly in the grays, whose pictures are always a little fuzzy, but whose sharp pencils delineate in bold strokes the extent of life, love, courage, danger, and mortality.
And now I really have to write a paper about the importance of "degree" in Chaucer, specifically the Wyf of Bath's Prologue and Tale, but I needed to do something to keep me from thinking about that and this seemed like a good idea.
(What kind of artist am I? Jane Austen once called herself a minaturist, whose canvas was but a piece of ivory an inch across, and upon which she wrought with exquisite details her stories. What of Charlotte Bronte? Now I'm rambling/procrastinating, but there are worse things to ramble/procrastinate about.)
A writer, without a doubt, but which one? All of my favorites paint the world with such different strokes, and yet each of them is "full worthy" (oh my god, I just quoted Chaucer out of context) of the praise that they get.
J. K. Rowling's the most popular of my favorite artists, and I feel like she's probably the most mainstream now, although she wasn't always. She was the genre-maker, the one who defined an entirely new school of art and pioneered her way through it. And she did it well.
Diane Duane I would say is probably an oil painter, with vivid details standing out so greatly in her work that there isn't a single word put to waste. Every time I read something she's written I learn more about myself.
Julie E. Czerneda works almost like a watercolor artist, but her medium is the human (or alien) heart in all its complexities -- her books are written directly from their subjects' blood and tears and hopes.
Jim Butcher's got the feel of a nitty-gritty sketch artist, who works in black and white but mostly in the grays, whose pictures are always a little fuzzy, but whose sharp pencils delineate in bold strokes the extent of life, love, courage, danger, and mortality.
And now I really have to write a paper about the importance of "degree" in Chaucer, specifically the Wyf of Bath's Prologue and Tale, but I needed to do something to keep me from thinking about that and this seemed like a good idea.
(What kind of artist am I? Jane Austen once called herself a minaturist, whose canvas was but a piece of ivory an inch across, and upon which she wrought with exquisite details her stories. What of Charlotte Bronte? Now I'm rambling/procrastinating, but there are worse things to ramble/procrastinate about.)