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Martini is often guilty of overdescription -- three pages of the businesswoman handing her keys to a valet parking attendant.
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It uses deliberately "bad" writing -- incessant overdescription of scenes -- in order to subvert the novel itself.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time 11: Knife of Dreams (2005) Adam Roberts 2010
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It uses deliberately "bad" writing -- incessant overdescription of scenes -- in order to subvert the novel itself.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time (1990-2005) Adam Roberts 2010
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It uses deliberately "bad" writing -- incessant overdescription of scenes -- in order to subvert the novel itself.
Archive 2010-06-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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As is overdescription for effect (e.g., instead of referring to “3-card monte” you refer to “3-card monte in New Jersey behind a Little Caesar’s.”
2010 January « 2010
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As is overdescription for effect (e.g., instead of referring to “3-card monte” you refer to “3-card monte in New Jersey behind a Little Caesar’s.”
Writing Funny « 2010
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