Red Széll

And then also the repetition of the word fall three times.

So you're already tumbling with the sentence.

You know that, you know, that word fall is ringing like a knell in the background.

And I really genuinely believe in the musicality of language.

The differential between prose and poetry is quite arbitrary, I think, in some ways.

You know, not all poetry has to be iambic pentameter and rhyme every second line.

In fact, sometimes that's the worst poetry.

There's a poetry naturally in language and in the cadences we use.

And as Frank Herbert says, if you are...

placing your punctuation and your paragraph breaks and the different lengths of words in places deliberately to extend people's interest, to immerse them more.

then you're creating a type of poetry, whether it's called prose or not.

Yes, but I would argue that all language is poetic to an extent, unless it's produced by an AI.

But maybe even that, who knows?

In which case, it doesn't really apply.

I think the main thing here is that for language to be effective, it needs to sound as if it has come out of the mouth of someone, rather than being a caricature of

or something machine-generated.

And we need to be able to connect with the voice of the book, the personality of the book.

Now, we might have a different voice for a thriller, which is probably going to be a little bit more staccato.

It's probably going to have...

fewer lengthy descriptions of the beauty of the night sky, although those two can be put in there for effect to slow the pace before starting it up again.