Modern Day Sei Shonagon

[privatexenemy]

Genre: original
Rated: PG-13 (bluntness)
Stated: 01.10.2006
Ended: 02.10.2006
Author’s Note: We were told to imitate the writing style of an author we had read. Since it doesn't make sense to write in Japanese, I wrote the whole composition in English... with a bit of a sting. For those that want to read something I don't normally write.

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Comments

[pugsley]

It is great to see you writing something so I thank you and I hope all is going well for you.

That was really good. I found myself agreeing with every moment you wrote about.

It is a wonderful talent that you have to make the writer really experience every little episode. I felt the beauty of the dying sun and the agony the broken hearted girl felt after her break-up.

[privatexenemy]

Hey! Thanks for reading. I couldn't pass up something that I actually took time and enjoyed writing, so I decided to share it. Glad to see someone liked it.

Right now, I'm suffering from a writer's block. I don't quite know how to end ueta taiyou... and though I have an idea what's going to happen up to that point, there's like three endings and I don't know where to go... but anyway, I'm also working on a few oneshots for Viewfinder, which I hope to be able to release starting November. That's a tentative schedule though. :)

[aoi_aka]

This was definately something I hadn't seen you write. It's very different and if I knew Japanese, I would've loved to have read it in Japanese. :D

So whose writing style did you imitate? Nothing comes to mind and it's probably somebody that I've never read.

This has all sorts of emotions and actions. Some of them were exactly (or something similar in tone) what I've noticed people do to others. And I'm sure I've done some of them myself. I'm not perfect. My favorite has to be the first sentence to Beautiful Things. The rest is good too and it's a really good balance to the parts above.

Thank you for sharing.

[privatexenemy]

Yeah, it's something more literary... can't always write fanfiction, you know? That and I needed a break from writing really long things.... though I should get back to that.

I borrowed the style of Sei Shonagon (author of Pillow Book), hence the title "Modern Day Sei Shonagon." The Pillow Book is mostly a compilation of lists of things observed through the eyes of a courtlady of the Heian period. She wrote one of the masterpieces of Japanese literature.

I'm glad that you admired the emotion and descriptions. I struggled with keeping the writing simple, but I wanted to make sure that I captured the standards of todays society.

Thank you for reading.