Sep 17, 2022·edited Sep 17, 2022Liked by M. M. De Voe
As I now try to resist the temptation to use a rhetorical question in something I am writing, I just wanted to tell you how inspired to think I was by the content and style of your responses to Tommy Dean's questions. On another point, I have to say that I sometimes find the second-person voice annoying as a reader. On other occasions, however, being really more of a reader than a writer and thus more at the mercy of a writer's magic, I don't even really notice it's being used. I think if you don't like a work in the first place, it can make the experience worse. It comes across then as, above all, presumptuous, but perhaps also tedious....Anyway, I know I will remember several of your answers, and use them as guideposts.
As I now try to resist the temptation to use a rhetorical question in something I am writing, I just wanted to tell you how inspired to think I was by the content and style of your responses to Tommy Dean's questions. On another point, I have to say that I sometimes find the second-person voice annoying as a reader. On other occasions, however, being really more of a reader than a writer and thus more at the mercy of a writer's magic, I don't even really notice it's being used. I think if you don't like a work in the first place, it can make the experience worse. It comes across then as, above all, presumptuous, but perhaps also tedious....Anyway, I know I will remember several of your answers, and use them as guideposts.
Always great to hear from you, David!