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Would you say I have a plethora of words?
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no but i would lustily verbalize it
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Mar 10, 2017 01:07
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Would you say I have a plethora of words? Truly a myriad of words
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Mar 10, 2017 01:12
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a cornucopia of verbiage
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Mar 10, 2017 01:16
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a shitload of letter barfs
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Mar 10, 2017 01:21
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a herd of words
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Mar 10, 2017 01:26
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Trustworthy posted:Truly a myriad of words Is this a troll?
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Mar 10, 2017 01:28
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newtestleper posted:Is this a troll? you're a troll
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Mar 10, 2017 01:31
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sebmojo posted:you're a troll A myriad of trolls
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Mar 10, 2017 01:37
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A dearth of paucity?
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Mar 10, 2017 01:53
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im a troll
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Mar 10, 2017 02:54
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an embarrassment of trolls
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Mar 10, 2017 02:54
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An enema of shitposts.
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Mar 10, 2017 03:06
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i'm a rhino!
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Mar 10, 2017 03:08
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a pedantic of goons
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Mar 10, 2017 03:23
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you're all nerds
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Mar 10, 2017 03:41
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anime was right posted:you're all nerds empty quoting this lol
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Mar 10, 2017 04:00
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Can everyone share their own strategies for writing dialogue? Besides stalking/wiretapping
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Mar 10, 2017 04:16
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Monologue is keeping yourself talking and interested. Dialogue is keeping the other person talking and interested. What do you say to get the other person to explain XYZ about ABC? What do you say to not bore the other person, if you care? This and believing people only talk to get a reaction from what they're saying or to pry information out of someone. But then I just come back to this, actual advice. Dr. Kloctopussy posted:DIALOGUE You've got your character and know how they'll behave
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Mar 10, 2017 04:46
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sebmojo posted:empty quoting this lol
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Mar 10, 2017 04:51
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Ironic Twist posted:Can everyone share their own strategies for writing dialogue? Besides stalking/wiretapping my strategy is to talk to people who talk cool and emulate them
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Mar 10, 2017 04:59
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Ironic Twist posted:Can everyone share their own strategies for writing dialogue? Besides stalking/wiretapping I've had some luck with writing the first draft without any dialogue tags or blocking. Just their words, back and forth. I tend to get bogged down with those things and lose the flow of the conversation otherwise. Then go back and pare it down and add necessary tags and blocking for color.
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Mar 10, 2017 05:03
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Sitting Here posted:a pedantic of goons
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Mar 10, 2017 12:56
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This is a neat guide to the types of cheesy choices that new (or just bad) fiction writers can make. It's on an SF blog but most of it applies to any fiction writing. Examples- Nowhere Nowhen Story - Putting too little exposition into the story’s beginning, so that the story, while physically readable, seems to take place in a vacuum and fails to engage any readerly interest. Fuzz - An element of motivation the author was too lazy to supply. The word “somehow” is a useful tip-off to fuzzy areas of a story. “Somehow she had forgotten to bring her gun.” The Grubby Apartment Story - Similar to the “poor me” story, this autobiographical effort features a miserably quasi-bohemian writer, living in urban angst in a grubby apartment. The story commonly stars the author’s friends in thin disguises — friends who may also be the author’s workshop companions, to their considerable alarm.
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Mar 10, 2017 19:31
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Somewhat related, I just finished a sci-fi anthology in which three of the ten stories were variations on "the inner life of a middle-aged man who hosed up his marriage and family by being incredibly self-involved and emotionally stunted, only to realize it too late, but he totally regrets it so he's still a sympathetic character I swear!" Like, drat, is the editor of this collection trying to tell us something?
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Mar 10, 2017 19:36
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All writing is autobiography. Sometimes writing becomes an excruciatingly detailed confession.
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Mar 10, 2017 19:52
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showbiz_liz posted:This is a neat guide to the types of cheesy choices that new (or just bad) fiction writers can make. It's on an SF blog but most of it applies to any fiction writing. Examples- i cant wait for my book, free of pet peeves, to never sell bc its still bad
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Mar 10, 2017 20:57
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Ironic Twist posted:Can everyone share their own strategies for writing dialogue? Besides stalking/wiretapping Dialogue in novels is a "best of" of the dialogue you have IRL. Keep it short, don't meander, every sentence needs to achieve something (even if it's just showing/revealing the personality of the speaker). So basically think about your own dialogues and think "what was the essential part oft his 10-minute talk and how can I distill this into single lines" and avoid the "uhs" and "ums" and repeating yourself.
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Mar 10, 2017 23:28
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anime was right posted:i cant wait for my book, free of pet peeves, to never sell bc its still bad But how do I write the TV tropes article for your book then
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Mar 11, 2017 02:27
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Ironic Twist posted:Can everyone share their own strategies for writing dialogue? Besides stalking/wiretapping For me writing a person's dialogue is a bit like playing badminton but you can't see the other player, only the birdie. Each person's line is based off their thoughts and what the other person's said, so it comes out as a back and forth flow. Each person has the ideas in their head that they're trying to convey, and each line is taking what the person said before and wrapping that back around to their ideas.
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Mar 11, 2017 02:36
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don't have people answering each other's questions, have people talk over and round and through each other to get what they want. don't write like people talk, write like people talk in good books.
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Mar 11, 2017 03:22
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For the love of god, use contractions at every possible instance. People run their words together, it stands out if you don't.
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Mar 11, 2017 03:24
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[Famous Writer] wrote without contractions and that is okay, [ageist insult]
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Mar 11, 2017 03:38
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i do henceforth declare that this is precisely how the common man articulates
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Mar 11, 2017 04:02
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anime was right posted:i do henceforth declare that this is precisely how the common man articulates No one wants to know how you articulate e: srsly man that's really gross, TMI Sitting Here fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Mar 11, 2017 |
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Mar 11, 2017 04:28
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Sitting Here posted:No one wants to know how you articulate you're not my real dad
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Mar 11, 2017 06:12
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also anyone want to trade test reading? around 10k words, first threeish chapters of a book. around early next week. no hard deadline. i dont care what genre your book/story/whatever is.
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Mar 11, 2017 06:33
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anime was right posted:you're not my real dad hi dad
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Mar 11, 2017 07:25
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sebmojo posted:don't have people answering each other's questions, have people talk over and round and through each other to get what they want. don't write like people talk, write like people talk in good books. This for sure. Also, here's one I'm guilty of -- avoid adding action to dialogue tags. "Get the gently caress out," Hawklad said, as he stomped his foot and pointed to the door. reads much better as "Get the gently caress out," Hawklad said. He stomped his foot and pointed to the door. The dialogue should be important enough to stand on its own. And so should the action.
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Hawklad posted:This for sure. I'd argue it reads even better as Hawklad stomped his foot and pointed to the door. "Get the gently caress out." but they all work and at a certain point it's just splitting hairs
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