R.A. Scotti has great one-liners. it's very strange to think that her career began in writing spy and detective novels. Her prose isn't dense, it reads easily but then she'll drop a stone into your drink. She uses them artfully using them to slam on the brakes or the accelerator. In non-fiction it's unusual in it's poetry.
"All along the Northeast coast, riled by the wind, the sea became magnificent and mad."
It's simple and visual and it works with the alliteration. The clausulas are different but the near-rhyme is interesting. I like alliteration because it's difficult to use and when you fail you sound foolish. It's very satisfying when it works; and this works.
R.A. Scotti has great one-liners. it's very strange to think that her career began in writing spy and detective novels. Her prose isn't dense, it reads easily but then she'll drop a stone into your drink. She uses them artfully using them to slam on the brakes or the accelerator. In non-fiction it's unusual in it's poetry.
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