On the one hand, you're right. On the other hand, a lot of Victorian authors' works were originally published in a weekly serialized format, so they had to produce a weekly installment of their story. They had all the incentive to pad out their writing to stretch their material as far as they could, and a lot of them were also paid by the word.
Try reading **20,000 Leagues Under The Sea,** there's a chapter titled "A Few Figures," and the entirety of it is the narrator and ship captain discussing the ship dimensions, the mathematical method used to determine the amount of fuel needed, literally anything math-related in the ship's construction. Quite literally a few figures. It's a whole chapter of grown smart men talking about numbers. And 50% of the book is the narrator, who is a naturalist, CLASSIFYING EVERY SINGLE ANIMAL AND PLANT USING ACTUAL TAXONOMY. Family, genus, species, all of that. Oh my gosh.
Reminds me of Moby Dick, and how many chapters were devoted to all the minutiae and ins and outs of the process of turning live whales into lamp oil. Also the entire chapter dedicated to explaining why whales were fish and you couldn't tell Herman Melville any different.
Now I'm imagining a story with (at least) two protagonists, who were together the whole time and are portraying the same events, but who clearly paid attention to very different details about their surroundings. Sometimes played for comedy, as one protagonist describes this music as life-changing, something anyone who heard it will remember for all time. Only for it to be described as a footnote, an annoyance, even, for the second protagonist. Either because they didn't care much for music, or because they had a mission, a goal at the party that had nothing to do with dancing.
I am writing a story of this kind. Actually, have been writing before I started writing my master thesis. When it is over I will continue the story. I love this story much more than I liked the previous one. I think the breath of one character noticing one important thing and not another with another character doing the opposite would go well with the first being an idealistic and positive person whilst another one is a cynical nihilist. Great couple 💖. Also if you add them both being something of the unreliable narrators because of how wrongly they perceive certain topics... I will need to rewrite this many times to make it good. I hope it will be.
Part of this is descriptive writing, which serves as a tool for emphasis. Lets say an author is writing a scene. Bob visits a party to deliver important news to a friend, then leaves quickly. IN which case, "the music was loud" works as a description for the music, becuas it isnt' an important detail. However, if Bob is visiting the party to have a good time, the more emphasis might be needed on the music. "The music was thunderous, with boisterous energy. the air pulsed with noise, took hold of ppeoples limbs and seemde to make them dance". would work as a description in that case
You can. Just remember: Who Where When Why How And then repeat 3 times per point. Followed by a roulette in a thesaurus and changing the words. Finally, choose a cursive font
Oh, and for the more experience you may also add what. And experiment with different number of repetitions. Maybe who can be done 5 times, where twice etc etc
This isn't even Victorian. This is modern verbiage used to describe rather than simply tell. You can make a formula out of it, but the most important part is to feel the image in your head. Embrace the artistry.
@jdmangrich actually golfish have an average attention span of 9 seconds, humans have the average attention span of 6 seconds, therefore goldfish have more attention, and octopi have higher IQ, and squirrels have higher puzzle solving skills. Humans are fvcking stupid lol
It’s really impressive how this guy managed to write all that! However, I must confess my distaste towards authors who describe the slightest sliver of a shadow with a dozen paragraphs of words. I must admit that after three sessions of agonizing description it gets rather dull and quite boring indeed. Descriptions are fine, they are most vital to the plot, but please remember what is important and what is not. If you overload the reader with a million descriptive descriptions then they will forget what was at first being described. So please, only explain a few things with paragraphs of words, the others will be fine with just a paragraph
"cacophony of harmonious sound" is an oxymoron which upsets me greatly
This is called descriptive writing, it is what makes reading fiction interesting.
On the one hand, you're right. On the other hand, a lot of Victorian authors' works were originally published in a weekly serialized format, so they had to produce a weekly installment of their story. They had all the incentive to pad out their writing to stretch their material as far as they could, and a lot of them were also paid by the word.
Thank you!
as long as it's not overdone
Yes but this is over the top
This is called failing to recognise satire
when you want your essay to be 5000 words long
Try reading **20,000 Leagues Under The Sea,** there's a chapter titled "A Few Figures," and the entirety of it is the narrator and ship captain discussing the ship dimensions, the mathematical method used to determine the amount of fuel needed, literally anything math-related in the ship's construction.
Quite literally a few figures. It's a whole chapter of grown smart men talking about numbers.
And 50% of the book is the narrator, who is a naturalist, CLASSIFYING EVERY SINGLE ANIMAL AND PLANT USING ACTUAL TAXONOMY.
Family, genus, species, all of that. Oh my gosh.
I read it too there was a whole chapter talking about the marin life out of the submarine
I was like "please stop talking about *fish*"
@@Tree.098 what else are you supposed to talk about while stuck on an 1800s boat 😭
Ah! Then that's the reason I only could find abridged versions when I was a kid! 😂
Reminds me of Moby Dick, and how many chapters were devoted to all the minutiae and ins and outs of the process of turning live whales into lamp oil. Also the entire chapter dedicated to explaining why whales were fish and you couldn't tell Herman Melville any different.
Gotta love Jules Verne
Now I'm imagining a story with (at least) two protagonists, who were together the whole time and are portraying the same events, but who clearly paid attention to very different details about their surroundings. Sometimes played for comedy, as one protagonist describes this music as life-changing, something anyone who heard it will remember for all time.
Only for it to be described as a footnote, an annoyance, even, for the second protagonist. Either because they didn't care much for music, or because they had a mission, a goal at the party that had nothing to do with dancing.
I think that's called Rashomon, but I might be wrong.
I am writing a story of this kind. Actually, have been writing before I started writing my master thesis. When it is over I will continue the story. I love this story much more than I liked the previous one.
I think the breath of one character noticing one important thing and not another with another character doing the opposite would go well with the first being an idealistic and positive person whilst another one is a cynical nihilist. Great couple 💖. Also if you add them both being something of the unreliable narrators because of how wrongly they perceive certain topics... I will need to rewrite this many times to make it good. I hope it will be.
When I saw the length, I thought that it was a compilation!
How much ink and paper were the Victorians using for their letters 😅
The difference between being a writer and being a good writer.
Part of this is descriptive writing, which serves as a tool for emphasis.
Lets say an author is writing a scene. Bob visits a party to deliver important news to a friend, then leaves quickly. IN which case, "the music was loud" works as a description for the music, becuas it isnt' an important detail.
However, if Bob is visiting the party to have a good time, the more emphasis might be needed on the music.
"The music was thunderous, with boisterous energy. the air pulsed with noise, took hold of ppeoples limbs and seemde to make them dance". would work as a description in that case
When your essay didn’t reach the amount of required words:
i wish i could write like a victorian writer wtf
You can.
Just remember:
Who
Where
When
Why
How
And then repeat 3 times per point. Followed by a roulette in a thesaurus and changing the words.
Finally, choose a cursive font
Oh, and for the more experience you may also add what. And experiment with different number of repetitions.
Maybe who can be done 5 times, where twice etc etc
This isn't even Victorian. This is modern verbiage used to describe rather than simply tell. You can make a formula out of it, but the most important part is to feel the image in your head. Embrace the artistry.
Chatgpt be like
Virginia Woolf would enjoy this very much.
Keep this channel going .
If they didnt do that then the books would be so much easier to understand.
20,000 leagues under the sea is like 40% description of marine life. It’s peak fiction but that’s aside from the point.
And that is why Victorian writers are most superior.
Keep going, man, this is great. I subscribed ;)
Genuinely enjoyed this 🤣
Music. (normal people say)
Victorians: [insert every single piece of music playing at once for hours on end]
Why is this three minutes long?
Because it's less then four and more than two.
harry potter books for no reason:
Not at all
@@sirxander5420 Bro got the attention span of a goldfish
@jdmangrich actually golfish have an average attention span of 9 seconds, humans have the average attention span of 6 seconds, therefore goldfish have more attention, and octopi have higher IQ, and squirrels have higher puzzle solving skills. Humans are fvcking stupid lol
ok but what if the reverberation was blue
ngl this is kinda hot idk why
It’s really impressive how this guy managed to write all that! However, I must confess my distaste towards authors who describe the slightest sliver of a shadow with a dozen paragraphs of words. I must admit that after three sessions of agonizing description it gets rather dull and quite boring indeed. Descriptions are fine, they are most vital to the plot, but please remember what is important and what is not. If you overload the reader with a million descriptive descriptions then they will forget what was at first being described. So please, only explain a few things with paragraphs of words, the others will be fine with just a paragraph