A look at dialogue and deciding what characters need to talk about in a story. How do you decide on dialogue and topics for the conversations that happen in a story? |
The literary Gods are always screaming 'show not tell'. Dialogue does this perfectly. The first person character is thinking to himself as he tools up the road. 'This brand new 55 chevy heavy duty and horse trailer to use for the asking is one great perk the company provides beings I've had a new vehicle since never in my whold life.' This sets the time period for the story without writing, 'The year was 1955'. |
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JACE - House Targaryen & Aennaytte: Free & Wild in GoT , I take pride in this torturous exciting event, even though I lose my sanity with it. |
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A look at titles, the different kinds of magical characters and the gender identity that match or mismatch them. What term do you use for the magic characters? Does gender matter in the titles? |
I kinda want to drop this question into FandomSecrets and see how people respond. |
Magic? You're not familiar with CLARKE's Third Law, are you? How about the fact that, as long as the Laws of Physics aren't violated, the application is immaterial. Although a Leigh BRACKETT witch did once allude to anyone using science as being incompetent (1942). Yes, I have a partial 1st draft of a "magical" story. Once out of the patriarchal priesthood's influence, gender doesn't matter. Why should it? (I hate to call it "magical," because it's natural for that reality.) |
1) Tolkienesque. 2) Gender? Maybe. Genre? Definitely! I remember, back in the 1980's, how my Dad hated the term 'sword & sorcery film." So, when talking to him about them, I invented a new term; "fantasy swashbuckler"! That way, I didn't have to listen to him over-use, at the top of his lungs, the term "weirdo movies" (which is also how he lumps together horror and sci-fi films). |
Sometimes a contest doesn't turn out like you'd wish. How do you handle low participation in your contests? |
I agree with s . I post reminders two or three times a month on the Newsfeed about my contest,
I really like this "two birds" thing--slipped my in contest advertisement AND checked off that daily Newsfeed moment. |
Here's the scoop about the Official Wdc Contests Have you entered any one of the Official Contests before? Why or why not? |
D. Reed Whittaker - That's what someone once told me about skydiving without a parachute. I didn't believe them either. |
A chat regarding the rules about capitalization. Question: What’s the difference between a cat and a comma?
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10/10 joke. I love puns. :) Another difference between them is that you can't forget that a cat is present while people forget commas all the time. |
Bonnie8910 - William Fakespeare used to apply one of each in the same sentence. "Tabby [comma] or not tabby? Cat is the question." |
Some of my books are mysterious.