Mystery and wonder

The annual Fallen London Estival has started! It's different every year, so you never know where it will take you. I was hoping to catch up on the Firmament storyline beforehand, so I could unlock the new locations just in case. But I ran out of time. Oh well.

During a recent discussion, one commenter summed up the classic Fallen London prose style in a way that captures it for me:

The obscurity was fun but it was never the point, and it was never obscure because the prose was florid; the fun was that the writing had a sharp wit—everything is described in like two sentences with a funny but illuminating metaphor—and because it's brisk and economical, it would sometimes mention something unusual or magical without pausing to elaborate, creating a casual sense of mystery and wonder.

/writinggoals