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Originally Posted by glowbelly
if you are trying to emulate hemingway, you need to write as if you are walking through the setting. the dialogue needs to be real. hemingway strove to write the perfect sentence EVERY TIME HE SAT DOWN TO WRITE A SENTENCE. he had the ability to set a scene the way a movie sets a scene. he tends to give an overall impression like a big sweeping landscape and then moves in to minute, if not unimportant, detail of what is happening to and around the main characters.
you don't do that. i'm sorry. you don't even come close.
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Perhaps I don't come close, but I question if you have an grip on anything the guy has ever written. His earlier work (In Our Time) was some of the most sparse stuff ever written. Completley void of description, solely based on character conversation. His dialouge was actually the most bizarre part of it, compared to your saying the dialouge needs to be real.
"And I want to eat at a table with my own silver and I want candles. And I want it to be spring and I want to brush my hair out in front of a mirror and I want a kitty and I want some new clothes "
If someone said that in real life, you'd think they were retarded or insane. I tend to think the latter of Hem's work. I reccomend you read the mini-chapters between In Our Time. They're usually one short paragraph, little to no description, and strange conversations. If you're going to talk lengthily about an author, make sure you know what the fuck you're dealing with.
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