Writer's Block: Cramming Yourself into a Sentence

[rm]

[Error: unknown template qotd]

Because of the glorious power of the compound-complex sentence, I could easily and appallingly stretch this to a paragraph, but I'm so made of awesome, fiction, and ridiculousness (lists and parenthetical statements are also quite handy for this sort of exercise), I don't even have to.

As ever, LJ, thanks for playing!

Comments

[dewott.livejournal.com]

That's actually called a run-on sentence after a while, and horrifies most grammar buffs. But, kudos!

[miep.livejournal.com]

it's only a run-on sentence if there is not a clear conjunction or proper punctuation between the independent clauses. Run-on does not mean "long", even if your sentence goes on for a full page, as Melville's sentences often did.

[dewott.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! I love literary loopholes.

[miep.livejournal.com]

one lj friend of mine said he got a paper back from the TA that had RUN ON written in big red letters any time he used a complex or compound sentence. *headdesk*

[dewott.livejournal.com]

I am reminded of the English teacher from the movie Orange County, hehe.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

The first stanza of The Star Spangled Banner is one long, but by no means run on, sentence(or at best, one long sentence and one short one,) to say nothing of the sentence structure of the superlatively elegant Declaration of Independence, or, for that matter, that of that of the Preamble to The Constitution of the United States of America, my dear rachelled. Eh?

[dewott.livejournal.com]

I would agree, but I'm afraid my opinion would be largely uninformed, as I am Canadian. I'll trust that you are right, however, judging by what little of those speeches and anthem that I can remember offhand.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I'm from Alberta, citizen. I was just being a smart ass.

[dewott.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I know very few Canadians on the internet. I wondered about the the Eh but I figured it was a different sound, hehe.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I think I know more people on LJ who'd like to be Canadian than people who actually are.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Not that the above aren't all elegantly, and movingly,
written. This was the period when English prose was at it's height. Y'know?

[dewott.livejournal.com]

It`s all been downhill from my generation onward, that`s for sure. I remember life without the internet. Curse you, MSN and l33t-speak. *sigh*

(Not that I have anything against MSN so much as the horrible grammatical implications it`s brought upon society... *shakefist*)

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

*grin* That is a *fabulous* descriptive sentence.

[bizetsy.livejournal.com]

Metafunny!