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Screaming Idiot posted:Why they hands so big because the yaoi audience finds large hands attractive
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Nov 20, 2018 07:10
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It's hard to grasp those stacks of DVDs otherwise.
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Nov 20, 2018 07:18
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SelenicMartian posted:It's hard to grasp those stacks of DVDs otherwise. this is a good joke that i appreciate. thank you.
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Nov 20, 2018 07:23
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anime was right posted:because the yaoi audience finds large hands attractive yaoi people must love tf2
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Nov 20, 2018 16:34
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Nae! posted:yaoi people must love tf2 And Jack Reacher https://twitter.com/toyns/status/1023041773914992642
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Nov 20, 2018 16:36
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More like Jack Reacheround
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Nov 20, 2018 16:40
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Nae! posted:yaoi people must love tf2 and street fighter
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Nov 20, 2018 17:46
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can you take a overdone idea and make it interesting? i've been using too many as of late. notably the 7 deadly sins as themes for a series of short stories.
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Nov 21, 2018 02:48
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Fruity20 posted:can you take a overdone idea and make it interesting? i've been using too many as of late. notably the 7 deadly sins as themes for a series of short stories. yes
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Nov 21, 2018 03:05
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Glusttony: Can't Stop Eating rear end
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Nov 21, 2018 03:13
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Screaming Idiot posted:Glusttony: Can't Stop Eating rear end Pride: Can't Stop Flaunting rear end Lust: Can't Stop Needing rear end Greed: Can't Stop Owning rear end Wrath: Can't Stop Mooning rear end Envy: Can't Stop Wanting Another rear end Sloth: Can't Get Off rear end
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Nov 21, 2018 03:17
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A new series by Chuck Tingle
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Nov 21, 2018 04:27
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Fruity20 posted:can you take a overdone idea and make it interesting? i've been using too many as of late. notably the 7 deadly sins as themes for a series of short stories. nope, once an idea is used it's gone forever. authors don't like to think about it but we reached Peak Ideas back around 200 CE and we've just been recycling everything ever since
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Nov 21, 2018 04:28
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Djeser posted:nope, once an idea is used it's gone forever. authors don't like to think about it but we reached Peak Ideas back around 200 CE and we've just been recycling everything ever since Unironically this, only for Hollywood
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Nov 21, 2018 04:28
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I just feel like I'm struggling to find something that feels familiar but is different enough to stand on its own merits.
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Nov 21, 2018 04:39
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Fruity20 posted:I just feel like I'm struggling to find something that feels familiar but is different enough to stand on its own merits. how you write it is what makes it different!! everyone can write the same thing, but everyone will execute it differently. thats what makes it yours.
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Nov 21, 2018 04:43
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Just tell the story you want to tell. Even if it's one that's been told a thousand times before -- and it will be -- you may tell it in a different way.
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Nov 21, 2018 04:44
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i think a strong way of using familiar tropes and what not is that they can be used as shorthand so the author can get to something more interesting. for example, when we say elves and dwarves, we dont really need to describe them anymore because theyre pretty culturally ingrained into our minds. so instead of wasting your time writing about how elves love nature and dwarves are drunkards, you can just say "there are elves and dwarves," let the reader fill in the gap, and then do something more interesting with that setting.
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Nov 21, 2018 05:18
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It's even more fun to take what the reader expects and use it to gently caress with them. Like, what if the elves really love nature, like to the point of being barely humanoid, feral predators who can mimic human behavior juuuuust long enough to lure them to their burrow for a fun evening of dismemberment and fine dining? I did that in one of my stories with a guy who has an "elf sanctuary" in California, and I got some fun moments out of it.
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Nov 21, 2018 05:24
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anime was right posted:how you write it is what makes it different!!
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Nov 21, 2018 15:07
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Good article. Muy perspectiva.
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Nov 21, 2018 17:31
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Screaming Idiot posted:Just tell the story you want to tell. Even if it's one that's been told a thousand times before -- and it will be -- you may tell it in a different way. All writing is variations on a theme. The art is finding what the explicit and implicit knobs are and twiddling them until you find something that interests you. Everything is either what the reader expects or what they don't expect, it's your job to know which is which.
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Nov 21, 2018 18:34
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Following up on the topic of race from the last page, one thing to keep in mind is that while it's totally cool if you don't want to mention anyone's race, you should be prepared for your readers to (fairly) assume everyone in your book is white. Since the "default" race in Western literature is white, readers (including non-white readers) have been trained to take the absence of race as an indicator of whiteness—and even if the reader doesn't presume that, they're still likely to take that as the author's intent. This goes hand-in-hand with the issue discussed earlier regarding only non-white people having their race mentioned, but that's squarely a writer issue, not just a reader issue. The above might not be an issue to some people, but I think it's worth keeping in mind. Melusine fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Nov 23, 2018 |
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Nov 23, 2018 03:12
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Apart from "stay in your lane" and "do your research", do you have any recommendations or tips on using a fictional device to respectfully represent a real-world struggle? For example, if I want to use digital uploading of human consciousness as a metaphor for gender transition, what should I pay attention to in order to avoid inadvertently telling the world's longest attack helicopter joke?
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Nov 23, 2018 16:45
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Ephemeron posted:Apart from "stay in your lane" and "do your research", do you have any recommendations or tips on using a fictional device to respectfully represent a real-world struggle? Ask someone whose struggle you're trying to represent. (This is the advice).
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Nov 23, 2018 23:00
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Ephemeron posted:Apart from "stay in your lane" and "do your research", do you have any recommendations or tips on using a fictional device to respectfully represent a real-world struggle? Write it, then show it to someone you think is appropriate. You need to be brave, you shouldn't go looking for permission.
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Nov 23, 2018 23:13
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Ephemeron posted:Apart from "stay in your lane" and "do your research", do you have any recommendations or tips on using a fictional device to respectfully represent a real-world struggle? I feel personally attacked https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3845416&userid=117687&perpage=40&pagenumber=3#post488270886
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Nov 23, 2018 23:25
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Don't make it a metaphor, make it its own thing. That isn't to say you can't write about uploading digital consciousness as informed by the process of gender transition, but if uploading is literally just a cipher for transitioning, why aren't you just writing a story about transitioning? Perhaps more importantly, if your story is equating the two, that opens you up to a whole host of unfortunate implications. Draw parallels, sure; make a story that says "isn't it funny that we still struggle with self-determination". But make sure you're actually writing about uploading digital consciousness. Give it things that aren't just a metaphor for transitioning. Make it different, but relatable. In a similar vein, make sure your story has a point beyond "uploading is like transitioning, isn't that weird?" That's an easy trap to fall into when you're writing stories with A Point, and I've seen it even in published short stories, where people will be so focused on the 'clever' thing their story does that they forget to give the reader another reason to keep reading beyond "do you get it??"
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Nov 24, 2018 01:03
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Exmond posted:I feel personally attacked Lol that story of yours was the first thing I thought of too. Ephemeron posted:Apart from "stay in your lane" and "do your research", do you have any recommendations or tips on using a fictional device to respectfully represent a real-world struggle? Djeser did a pretty good job of breaking down the problems with equating consciousness upload with gender transition, but I wanted to riff off that. I've seen at least one webcomic by a transgender author that used themes of transhumanism as a vehicle for exploring gender identity. However, that was less "uploading your consciousness is like gender transition", and more "gender transition as we have it now really is *not at all* like uploading your consciousness, and that sucks". While the medical side of gender reassignment has come a long way, trans people have to live with the reality that they will likely never have the full reproductive machinery that cis people of their gender have. A world that has uploading of human consciousness (and by extension downloading/"resleeving" of human consciousness) is a world in which transgender people can have a body (or virtual construct) that completely matches their gender.
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Nov 24, 2018 02:28
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Thank you.
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Nov 24, 2018 08:47
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I've listened to several seasons of Writing Excuses but every time I listen, I dislike Howard Tayler a little more... especially since I've now actually looked at Schlock Mercenary. I also find it's pretty heavily focused on fantasy and supernatural YA which aren't really my bag, baby. Any other interesting writing podcasts? If it helps steer recommendations, I've found Writing Excuses to be at its best when they're talking about techniques and skills (use of POV, dialog mechanics, etc), and at its worst when talking about actual story ideas (the prompts are dire).
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Nov 29, 2018 21:01
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Pham Nuwen posted:I've listened to several seasons of Writing Excuses but every time I listen, I dislike Howard Tayler a little more... especially since I've now actually looked at Schlock Mercenary. I also find it's pretty heavily focused on fantasy and supernatural YA which aren't really my bag, baby. he was on one of the panels i attended at worldcon and he literally spent like 30 minutes talking about nothing
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Nov 29, 2018 21:39
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Hello everybody! I have recently decided to take up writing again, just as a hobby. However, I have always been confident enough in my hobbies to share them, and I'd like to do that for my writing as well...eventually. Thus, before I have even put a single word of a first draft down, I'm faced with a bit of an conundrum: I'm a native German, not English speaker, and wonder which language I should write in. Pros for writing in German: - Obviously I should know the language better - If I do produce a manuscript that's, like, super good and cool, I could send it to national publishers Cons for writing in German: - I haven't spent time in Germany for a while now and do most of my other (professional) writing in English. Also, I read almost exclusively in English now. I might actually have forgotten how to write elegant German sentences - Every German friend I could ask for feedback, including my mom, knows English. If I post something here, it better be in English Pros for writing in English: - I have a lot of experience in scientific writing by now, am reasonably quick at producing papers and it's almost fun. So while it's not my native language, I feel very confident in it, though my style might (obviously) be a little bit dry and overly detailed - See feedback above, just a vastly bigger audience - If I self-publish eventually, I probably could do that via German channels as well, but there's vastly more resources and again audience in English Cons for writing in English: - style might be too influenced by my science writing, and I might do a lot of dumb subtle mistakes because I am, after all, not native - if I do end up producing amazing work, I can't publish it "normally" in Germany, which might be an issue Overall, I'm leaning heavily towards starting in English because most of my reservations against it depend on my product being so amazing that I'd eventually be able to hand it to a publisher. And if that does happen, I could of course just translate it, but that sounds like a pain in the dickhole. So anyway...I'd be happy to hear a few opinions on that. If you think that's too complicated an issue, I can of course just start a new thread (I hope the question is fine in this one to begin with). It might also be that this is a common issue for e.g. native Spanish speakers and has been discussed to death, if so I'd be happy with a link to previously made arguments  . Thanks a lot!
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ESL writers often have better grammar than native English speakers. If you have anyone able to do some minor editing or can commit yourself to doing a careful editing pass yourself, it's a no-brainer. Plus if you ever want to translate your own work back into your native language it'll be a lot easier than the other way around.
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Nov 30, 2018 17:01
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Simply Simon posted:Hello everybody! I have recently decided to take up writing again, just as a hobby. However, I have always been confident enough in my hobbies to share them, and I'd like to do that for my writing as well...eventually. Thus, before I have even put a single word of a first draft down, I'm faced with a bit of an conundrum: I'm a native German, not English speaker, and wonder which language I should write in. For what it's worth, I would have never picked up on you being a non-native speaker just from reading your post, so I think you can safely take a crack at writing prose in whichever language you prefer. Pham Nuwen posted:I've listened to several seasons of Writing Excuses but every time I listen, I dislike Howard Tayler a little more... especially since I've now actually looked at Schlock Mercenary. I also find it's pretty heavily focused on fantasy and supernatural YA which aren't really my bag, baby. He's definitely the weak link on that podcast, and I have to agree with you on his comic too. I remember feeling very deflated the first time I read it, like: "Oh... this is not... this is not good. Oh no." Fortunately, the other three are all at least baseline competent writers, if not better than that, so you can still get useful information if you just kind of ignore Howard. FormerPoster fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Nov 30, 2018 |
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Nov 30, 2018 19:45
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Yeah every time he starts talking about Schlock I tune him out. I mean I think most webcomics are garbage anyway and it's not a medium I enjoy, but his seem pretty stupid. Also whenever Mary is talking about puppetry I skip ahead 30 seconds.
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Nov 30, 2018 20:26
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As someone who even really enjoys webcomics, Schlock Mercenary is bad and I wouldn't trust the advice of somebody who wrote it. It's mostly notable for having been around for 18 years. I'm not sure what it was notable for 18 years ago... probably for being one of very few webcomics that managed to last for more than a couple of months.
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Nov 30, 2018 21:24
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MockingQuantum posted:As someone who even really enjoys webcomics, Schlock Mercenary is bad and I wouldn't trust the advice of somebody who wrote it. It's mostly notable for having been around for 18 years. I'm not sure what it was notable for 18 years ago... probably for being one of very few webcomics that managed to last for more than a couple of months. It's amazing how much the art style reminds me of User Friendly, which I'll admit I read back in high school when I didn't know any better. This is not a compliment. Edit: Simply Simon posted:Hello everybody! I have recently decided to take up writing again, just as a hobby. However, I have always been confident enough in my hobbies to share them, and I'd like to do that for my writing as well...eventually. Thus, before I have even put a single word of a first draft down, I'm faced with a bit of an conundrum: I'm a native German, not English speaker, and wonder which language I should write in. I can feel the academic writing influence in your post but as others have said, I didn't notice anything in your post that screamed NON NATIVE SPEAKER. I'd say write in English, but first spend some time with say Hemingway's short stories. I've got the same academic writing habits as you (too many parentheticals, too much detail, overlong sentences, overuse of colons, semicolons, and em-dashes) and it seems to help me get away from them by reading these famously terse stories for a bit. Pham Nuwen fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Nov 30, 2018 |
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tbh the worst part about writing excuses is once you know a solid amount about writing its like 15 minutes of listening for one good, useful sentence of advice.
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