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L.O.L.W.H.A.T.: April 2011
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A community of like-minded (and slightly deranged) writers. See the world through our eyes. Friday, 29 April 2011. That's what she said: punctuation in dialogue. If I had a penny for every time new writers made this mistake, I'd be richer than Amanda Hocking. You know what I'm talking about: punctuation. Specifically, punctuation involving quotation marks. I can't believe it." She said. That's because in this case, "she said" is just clarifying that she, in fact, said it. This gives us:. So, to recoup: c...
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L.O.L.W.H.A.T.: Economic Fiction: Purpose and Principles
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A community of like-minded (and slightly deranged) writers. See the world through our eyes. Wednesday, 13 April 2011. Economic Fiction: Purpose and Principles. Last week I introduced you to economics. As a subject. I also promised you I'd explain how to use economics to improve your fiction. We begin with behavior. Have you ever done anything completely randomly? If you said yes, I'd question you. Well, I went to the movie just because I felt like it! So that brings me to my principle of economics:.
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L.O.L.W.H.A.T.: July 2011
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A community of like-minded (and slightly deranged) writers. See the world through our eyes. Thursday, 14 July 2011. Keep it Tense: Action Scenes. Have you ever been frustrated. Writing a tense action sequence? What should be tense and immediate wanders slowly to an ending like an explosion in slow-motion. The truth is it’s not difficult to make your action scenes stand out, if you keep a few things in mind. For me, the discovery of the concept of the MRU. Keep the danger immediate and real. Don’...
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L.O.L.W.H.A.T.: June 2011
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A community of like-minded (and slightly deranged) writers. See the world through our eyes. Thursday, 30 June 2011. In writing, I've always experienced burnout eventually, since blogging about writing is a very solitary thing. Every person who writes about writing puts out information only from their point of view, a highly draining exercise for an introvert (I'm generally introverted, don't let my blog or twitter presence fool you! So how do you overcome that problem? The last tip only works if you're b...
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A Writer's Notes: August 2012
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Sunday, August 05, 2012. A social media scaleback. I've been looking at my blog for awhile, and I couldn't really decide what I want to do with it. Some writers turn their blogs into awesome reads, and some people have very interesting lives they can talk about. I'm not one of those people, and I feel that my writing blog has no focus. Instead, I'm going to channel my blogging energy into Paisley Sound. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I listen to way too much music and write about it to compensate. Guest pos...
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L.O.L.W.H.A.T.: Keep it Tense: Action Scenes
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A community of like-minded (and slightly deranged) writers. See the world through our eyes. Thursday, 14 July 2011. Keep it Tense: Action Scenes. Have you ever been frustrated. Writing a tense action sequence? What should be tense and immediate wanders slowly to an ending like an explosion in slow-motion. The truth is it’s not difficult to make your action scenes stand out, if you keep a few things in mind. For me, the discovery of the concept of the MRU. Keep the danger immediate and real. Don’...
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L.O.L.W.H.A.T.: There is Nothing quite as wonderful as Money, Money, Money
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A community of like-minded (and slightly deranged) writers. See the world through our eyes. Wednesday, 6 July 2011. There is Nothing quite as wonderful as Money, Money, Money. One of my friends is completely and utterly baffled at the fact that I don't want to write for a living. If I do those things, that's a great side effect. If you do, good for you. But that's not why I write. Long story. I'll try to sum it up. It's incredibly pathetic, but I got broken. In the past, I've forgotten why I write; j...
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L.O.L.W.H.A.T.: At Least I Have Good Storage
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A community of like-minded (and slightly deranged) writers. See the world through our eyes. Monday, 11 July 2011. At Least I Have Good Storage. An author I follow, Alicorn. Has two things on her site which confuse me: two projects she notes on her list of other writing as being embarrassing to her. It took me a few minutes to work out why, because I couldn't fathom putting forth anything by my best. Came out after her death, as did Robert Heinlein's For Us, The Living. 12 July 2011 at 08:28. I keep all m...
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L.O.L.W.H.A.T.: March 2011
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A community of like-minded (and slightly deranged) writers. See the world through our eyes. Thursday, 31 March 2011. One Big Melting Pot. How did I first start writing Blue Star? Well It was years and years of accumulating ideas. The title and basic idea actually cropped up in a roleplay I tried making in.08? I didn't work at the idea, though. I had other stories to write. So I let it sit and fester and ferment. In the meantime, I accumulated other ideas. Finally, when I'd finished telling my other two s...
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