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Olivia Lyndaker replied to the topic Does old prose have a chance? in the forum General Writing Discussions 6 years, 2 months ago
@devastate-lasting Thanks, even though I’ve been on here for a while, I still like making sure. 🙂 Lol
@hope-ann So about old prose… I’d mostly say that yes, there is a chance for old prose, since it is used for older books, and I like a quite a few old books written in old prose. Such as The Hobbit and so on.
But one thing I’d say (and this is from the perspective of a reader, since I’ve never written in old prose) is that you need to be careful how stressed you make the prose. I’ve read some books where they were written in old prose, and the story itself was fine, but I sorta got lost when reading, because we don’t talk that way anymore. Language has evolved a lot, so I’d make sure to not make the pros too old fashioned, so to speak, or you might just end up losing your readers miles behind. (Or pages… Lol) 😉












