Final Project Research 2: Taking from the writer Alex.E.Harrow

Above is an excerpt from the writer Alex.E.Harrow, available here: orbitbooks.net. This is excerpt from her book, 'The Ten Thousand Doors in January', which is the character 'January Scaller' who is a ward of an rich person and find a book that tells about secret doors which lead to other worlds filled with adventure.

"I opened the Door, and stepped through.

I wasn’t anywhere at all. An echoing in-betweenness pressed against my eardrums, as if I’d swum to the bottom of a vast lake. My reaching hand disappeared into the emptiness; my boot swung in an arc that never ended.
I call that in-between place the threshold now (Threshold, the line of the T splitting two empty spaces). Thresholds are dangerous places, neither here nor there, and walking across one is like stepping off the edge of a cliff in the naive faith that you’ll sprout wings halfway down. You can’t hesitate, or doubt. You can’t fear the in-between." (Harrow, A.E-Sep 10, 2019)

This text show cases vocabulary and lingo that utilized in not just her novel, but also multi reality stories. 

Words such as 'Vast, echoing, emptiness, never ended, threshold, dangerous, fear.'  These words create a sense of dread and fathomless scales for the reader and this is something that I need to introduce. These descriptive words also serve to add depth to story telling and further improve the element of bringing a writer involved with the story, this is something I need to incorperate.

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Reference list

Harrow, A.E. (2020) “The Blue Door,” in The Ten Thousand Doors of January. New York: Redhook.