Inconsistent Prose?
Posted: January 25th, 2011, 5:05 pm
What does it mean when an agent tells you that there are some spots with inconsistent prose in your ms? Is this just a euphamism for bad writing?
I can think of so many different ways prose can be inconsistent that it would make such a statement meaningless.
Bruce Sterling's "Turkey City Lexicon" hosted by SFWA has a short list of a few dozen of the more common problems specific to science fiction and fantasy and writing in general;
http://www.sfwa.org/2009/06/turkey-city ... -workshops
"Bathos" is one deserving special attention as pertains to inconsistent prose.