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- August 28th, 2011, 10:04 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Character hobbies and interests
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3252
Re: Character hobbies and interests
In the past, my characters shared hobbies and interests with my own. I'm trying to change that now, for obvious reasons. Sure, it's a good place to start, but the last thing you want is for your character to become a vehicle for wish fulfillment. If you use a shared hobby/interest (or even a hobby t...
- August 13th, 2011, 6:47 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: I am a bit ticked at people with no imagination!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7388
Re: I am a bit ticked at people with no imagination!
@washingtonwriter1968: In that case, I'd say stick with the parallel universes. You can say a universe within a universe, but calling it fetus-womb seems weird because it makes me think of something actually physically touching another thing in the same reality. You could use fetus-womb as an analog...
- August 12th, 2011, 8:32 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: I am a bit ticked at people with no imagination!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7388
Re: I am a bit ticked at people with no imagination!
@ GKJeyasingham OK Let me explain. 1.MY MC isn't a believer in the Supernatural. 2. she has just had a supernatural Experience 3. she is trying to explain to herself and others what has happened 4, she is trying to find a theory within the scientific community that explains what she has just experi...
- August 12th, 2011, 7:24 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: I am a bit ticked at people with no imagination!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7388
Re: I am a bit ticked at people with no imagination!
Haha, yeah, I can see how that would be annoying. But really, why post that on a physics forum? I'm a science major, and (to be honest) if I was a physicist visiting a forum about physics and saw a fictional theory such as yours, this is what I would think: 1) The reason you were posting on a physic...
- August 11th, 2011, 11:23 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Last Names in High Fantasy
- Replies: 11
- Views: 37508
Re: Last Names in High Fantasy
I think it's fine, depending on the culture you're trying to portray. If you think about the various cultures today, there are some that place considerably more emphasis on the surname compared to our North American culture (e.g. Japanese culture). I'm not sure if there are some that place less emph...
- August 10th, 2011, 10:28 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 528
- Views: 309240
Re: What are you reading now?
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
...and a couple of Alice Munro's stories here and there.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
...and a couple of Alice Munro's stories here and there.
- August 6th, 2011, 8:06 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Tell and Action
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5118
Re: Tell and Action
DIANE'S SECRET is an acronym for mnemonic purposes, not a book. Description, Introspection, Action, Narration, Emotion, Sensation, Summarization, Exposition, Conversation, Recollection, Explanation, Transition, DIANE'S SECRET writing modes. Wkipedia has a topic page on fiction writing modes, simila...
- August 6th, 2011, 8:01 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Working titles
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6062
Re: Working titles
My working titles suck. I usually have a rough idea of the story beforehand, and since I hate naming a document, "Untitled Short Story", I give it a name that summarizes it vaguely (e.g. "Boy-Dad-Theme Park Story"). As I continue outlining (I'm an outlining panster), I eventually...
- August 1st, 2011, 4:19 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Pure Adrenaline
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4350
Re: Pure Adrenaline
I don't get jittery, but I can feel my mind racing...if that makes sense.
Usually those moments happen before I fall asleep, so I have to rush to the computer to get it all down.
Usually those moments happen before I fall asleep, so I have to rush to the computer to get it all down.
- July 26th, 2011, 10:36 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: What Is Artful?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2171
Re: What Is Artful?
Prose that calls attention to itself disrupts a participation mystique because It signals a writer's guiding, if not omnipotent, influence. Readers become aware of the writer mediating the action, opening narrative distance between readers and a narrative's immediate setting or meaning space so wid...
Re: Mood
Most of the time the mood of my writing is unintentional. I'm a hard-core pantser so the "it just feels right" is totally the way I write. I'll be typing away and often the right words will come to my brain. The rest of it, I'd say about 30%, is intentional choice. So I guess it's a bit o...
- July 25th, 2011, 8:32 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Dang it! I pissed off my Muse!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9495
Re: Dang it! I pissed off my Muse!
"No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy." — Field Marshall Helmuth Carl Bernard von Moltke "According as circumstances are favorable, one should modify one's plans." — Sun Tzu, The Art of War It's okay to deviate from an outline. It's especially important not to fol...
- July 22nd, 2011, 9:24 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: One more chapter to go...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8748
Re: One more chapter to go...
Cliffhangers are dicey propositions. They've been done to death, done artlessly with junk fiction, still being done on trash reality TV shows, game shows, talent shows, yada, yada. Studying on how J.K. Rowling persistently left open cliffhanger endings with the Potter saga gave me valuable insight ...
Re: Tense
I don't like writing, nor do I like reading, in present tense. I'm a third person past tense kinda gal. This probably won't do me any favors when my YA goes on sub...the trend has been first person present in YA for a while now. :( I've noticed that, too, Macy. Which is partly why I wondered whethe...
- July 18th, 2011, 9:27 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Kindle ect
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8003
Re: Kindle ect
I fixed all these problems by rooting it and thereby turning it into a full-blown, customizable Android tablet. Now I can read e-books from anywhere (Amazon, B&N, Kobo, you name it), and I can put a whole range of Apps on it too (e-mail, Twitter, game console emulators, etc.). My brother-in-law...