Whether it is alien bizarre or your standard bizarre, how do you describe something that is weird/odd looking in design?
Like a building which looks normal at first glance from the interior, but inside is widely different. Or a building that is weird both inside and out. How do you describe a building or something with such a weird, wonky, bizarre design and layout?
Better yet, how would you describe through the eyes of your characters who are just as surprised by the design as you are…maybe.
I ask this because Alagossia has some buildings that are weird looking to just plain alien looking and describing it in a way that the characters are seeing…is a challenge.
What are your thoughts and feelings? Do you have any bizarrchitecture in your own stories?
If you still don’t know what that is here’s a link.
I don’t currently have examples in my own writing, though that will probably change in the future.
I like how Jeff VanderMeer describes the bizarre in his works, particularly in the Borne trilogy and in Veniss Underground. However there are times when I wish it was just a little more concrete (although counterintuitively that would ruin the effect of his style)
I have! I read the series as well, except for Absolution which came out recently. It was a decent movie though it departed significantly plotwise from the book. But I don’t think the book was very well-suited to movie adaption to begin with.
but he also makes it sound magical somehow