The Writers Forum Links List (Update - September 10)

[Desi the fuzzy fluffhead]

Endrael

Well, I guess I'll have to change that, then.

Once I get back into the habit of writing, anyway. sweatdrop

Yay!
*throws confetti*

[calviness]

ooohhh. shiny.

[Ace of Blue Spades]

I think the WF is having a Renaissance! There's things being discussed instead of having all the newbs snarked right back out again. Whoot.

[Muffers]

haha, no kidding.
it's good to see things a bit more friendly here.

i think i should do myself a favor and read through all the threads in the links list.
need a fresh outlook on writing.

[Endrael]

Muffers

haha, no kidding.
it's good to see things a bit more friendly here.

i think i should do myself a favor and read through all the threads in the links list.
need a fresh outlook on writing.

That is a lot of reading. Some of the threads are a dozen pages or more of discussion.

[Ace of Blue Spades]

Yar. Dialogue is hard, but prose is harder. Why must it be so hard to express an idea?

[Muffers]

Endrael:
the end result is worth it, i believe.
and i'm not going to lie: i skim.
>.>;

Ace:
- pat -
i personally find dialogue the bane of my existence.
straight prose is easier to me, but i'm long-winded.

also, what happened to your original account?

[Endrael]

Muffers

Endrael:
the end result is worth it, i believe.
and i'm not going to lie: i skim.

Skimming is actually common practice when reading stuff online. People look for key words and key phrases first to see if it's what they're looking for, then read second if it is.

[Ace of Blue Spades]

Muffers: Long story short, I got hacked. This is my original account, as I managed to catch the problem and report within an hour or two. (Luckily I had another account at the time. For a while I went with just the one.) The mod that handled my case changed the account's name by adding a 2 for "safety reason" and I haven't touched it since. I do think the hacker changed my account's name while they had control of it, so I guess I can understand why.

[The Kafkaesque]

Peek a boo.

[calviness]

and I find prose and dialogue equally difficult, but for opposite reasons: I am far too wordy in dialogue (because it is easy), and far too criptic in prose (because I am lazy).
Technically, I find it all very easy to write, it's just the damn revision that eats my soul.

Also, in reply to the peekaboo:
*childish squeal of delight*

[calviness]

and in response to the silence in here...
*childish shin kicking because we were playing peekaboo and you had no right to run away...*

[Endrael]

My only problem with dialogue is making each speaker read differently than the other characters.

[Ace of Blue Spades]

Hey, I didn't do anything. I never play peekaboo. Not unless it involves shotguns.

[Isaiah Moretti]

Endrael

My only problem with dialogue is making each speaker read differently than the other characters.

I fix this problem by listening to people. I'm a Starbucks barista and I can have, in the course of an eight hour shift, almost two hundred different customers all with different accents and ways of phrasing their words. Creative grammar and a bit of accent-tweaking helps me distinguish between my characters when writing in dialogue.

And I have one character who doesn't say anything unless he can figure out how to say it in not only Elizabethan English, but also a rhyming couplet. He's fun to write dialogue for.