@allisonwyss

A recently written sentence that I enjoyed, and which required a few minor revisions (by reading it aloud) is in this post.

The sentence is after this one: "April rolls its little showers of rain to May, May brings the days to June."

I wanted a sentence that would then expand on the passage of time from April to June and evoke a simple, early-18th century rural life.

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@allisonwyss

One of the most impressive sentences that I've read was crafted by Joan Didion for her 1966 essay “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream”.

Some expressions in the sentence show its age, but the build from the banal topics of the opening phrases is so good that the sentence is a short story and character study in itself.

I'll also post one of my own shortly.

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For this one I wrote about Nightbitch (by Rachel Yoder) and sensibility. But I also let myself geek about this long and luxurious sentence that piles up imagery for days.

Come across any lovely sentences lately? (Definitely count the ones you write yourself!)

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https://bit.ly/NightbitchDualSens

"Good god! My good man, have you no sense, or sensibility?"

"No. I don't. I'm not a character in a Jane Austen novel."

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"Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time." — Albert Camus — — — #AlbertCamus #quote #quotes #sensible #sensibility #consistent #always

There's something happening in #Persuasion about the gendered experience of pain that I find fascinating; I don't think it's just a part of #sensibility. But it's also not the argument of this chapter, so I'm trying to note it and move on. #MedHums

@allisonwyss @davidtheeviloverlord @orionkidder @unami Oh. Oh! Oh! I just got why you're using that word for this concept.

Sensibility.

It's a double entendre! Not only is it a reminder about what to include and what to exclude when writing mystery and intrigue (what the character can sense), it's also a sensible way to write tightly knit stories, as well as 1st and 3rd person close.

I'm expropriating this term. Words like this make me very happy (#author, naturally).

#sensibility is my new favorite word
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Excuse my #exuberance.

We're talking about sensibility in my class today--the particular way a character observes the world & how that creates a sense of personality. How looking out is a reflection of the inner workings of a brain.

And I'm thinking about how it's often so iterative for me. I notice my character's sensibility and then I develop it and then I notice new things and develop them.

Do you think about sensibility? Do you build it or notice it?

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#Sensibility is a gift.

An Empirical Razor for Discerning Rare, False, and Faked Phenomena

In an HN discussion of whether or not the supposed oldest person to have ever lived, Jeanne Calment, was a fraud or not, I noted that the one modern social phenomenon that’s been most strongly associated with a reduction in the number of superannuated persons in a population is accurate demographic recordkeeping… See, e.g., Saul Justin Newman, “Supercentenarians and the oldest-old are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates and short lifespans” (2019). ...

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/874e7c10d09c0139a7e5002590d8e506

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#DAK of a rule / law of likelihood of truth/falsity given increased sensing / recording capabilities regarding phenomena?

The idea's occurred to me. I doubt it's original. Spelled out here:

"An Empirical Razor for Discerning Rare, False, and Faked Phenomena"

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/874e7c10d09c0139a7e5002590d8e506

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