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Screaming Idiot posted:Spongebob Squarepants has the best dialogue. It is thought-provoking. Are you from my old scriptwriting class? Nothing worse than some people putting it forward as one of their favourite TV shows.
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Look, I'm sorry if the tasteful innuendo and simple -- yet incredibly deep -- humor of the show is above your head. It truly captures the spirit of the generation, and it's an inspiration to men and women everywhere. It's not quite as culturally relevant as My Little Pony or Homestuck, but it has its place among modern works as an item of great media significance.
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I know that was facetious but reading that genuinely hurts
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Just popping in to say the Encyclopedia of Fantasy and the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction are both available for free online now. Apparently this is old news (2012), but I just found out and it's pretty cool. Despite the boring name, both volumes are very well regarded and award-winning. They're basically tvtropes except not poo poo, because they're written by pre-eminent sci-fi/fantasy authors and have a decent editor.
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http://www.onethrone.com/#!joust/c19mu for the next three hours, this contest is still open. get a beginning and ending line at noon pst tomorrow, then within 24h write and submit a story of >1000 words. goonrush it.
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I just typed The End on my novel. It came out a little short, at only 56,500 words. I have plans for a few scenes I want to add, which should get me to 60k, and I probably need to expand most of the existing scenes a little bit. But I finished the draft! So, now what? I really don't know how to go about editing a novel into a final draft. Anyone have any links to really good blog posts/editing books?
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Self-Editing for Fiction Writers is good.
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blue squares posted:I just typed The End on my novel. It came out a little short, at only 56,500 words. I have plans for a few scenes I want to add, which should get me to 60k, and I probably need to expand most of the existing scenes a little bit. Grats, i think the next step is to drink a lot the book you're looking for is actually a cocktail guide
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Death & Co. is a really good one
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What's the best way to tackle short dialogues in with telepathy or the like? Currently I have it asquote:Push on. I'm kind of lost as to whether it needs quotations. It's a god speaking to a man(sort of) and his responses are not supposed to be audible more of an internal dialogue with the god.I've dabbled with writing before but always quit. Here's hoping I can stick with it for more than a week.
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jimcunningham posted:What's the best way to tackle short dialogues in with telepathy or the like? Currently I have it as Looks pretty good. I'd do quotes if the character actually spoke out loud, otherwise I think it's fine like that.
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jimcunningham posted:What's the best way to tackle short dialogues in with telepathy or the like? Currently I have it as Read (or re-read) Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man. It's all about telepathy, and he did some interesting stuff with formatting there.
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Any decent guides on the traditional publishing submission process out there? I've forgotten all the fine details.
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painted bird posted:Any decent guides on the traditional publishing submission process out there? I've forgotten all the fine details. With all this self publishing going around I've forgotten this was a thing. Write a manuscript, write a pitch, write a synopsis. Hunt for agents and publishers that are 1. Open to submissions 2. Accept non-agented submissions.
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jimcunningham posted:What's the best way to tackle short dialogues in with telepathy or the like? Currently I have it as In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, Death speaks in bold lower-uppercase without quotation marks, and it gets this point across beautifully -- it lends his speech pseudo-gravitas, emphasizing his dry humor. Did I mention Death is the best Discworld character? Because he is. It's a shame about his granddaughter, though. She's insufferable and brings down whatever book she happens to end up in.
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painted bird posted:Any decent guides on the traditional publishing submission process out there? I've forgotten all the fine details.
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painted bird posted:Any decent guides on the traditional publishing submission process out there? I've forgotten all the fine details. Feel free to PM or email me, sethjosephdickinson at gmail. I've sold a bunch of short stories and a few books.
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Sent you an e-mail, since I don't have PMs. Thank you everyone. 
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Mat Morris, self published author and host of the "author strong" podcast, aka the guy who twice did NaNoWriMo in 24 hours, is livestreaming his attempt to write 50K words in June. from June 1-28 he wrote 6K words, so he has 44K to do in the next 28 hours. http://www.twitch.tv/matmorrisauthor
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I bet those are great words.
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Malloreon posted:Mat Morris, self published author and host of the "author strong" podcast, aka the guy who twice did NaNoWriMo in 24 hours, is livestreaming his attempt to write 50K words in June. Since this dude crapped out, I'll take up his reins. Join me as I write: http://www.twitch.tv/angel_opportunity
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ahh nm, I've been taken down
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angel opportunity posted:ahh nm, I've been taken down lol, why
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I broke the TOS apparently
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Twitch has a rather vaguely defined rule of "no non-gaming content".
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Moddington posted:Twitch has a rather vaguely defined rule of "no non-gaming content". Really? I watch a bunch of artists draw on there.
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When I did that I just used Google Docs.
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ravenkult posted:Really? I watch a bunch of artists draw on there. you need to be reported
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LOU BEGAS MUSTACHE posted:you need to be reported you need to be deported
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I watched a dude play piano once. it was soothing.
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I'm going to stream myself as I stare at a blank wall and make vague sobbing sounds to myself. And for every donation I'll mutter a nursery rhyme as I put out lit cigarettes on my arm. I'm nothing if not avant-garde.
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just stream yourself explaining to the thread your top-secret chosen snowflake genre
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Martello posted:just stream yourself explaining to the thread your top-secret chosen snowflake genre So you essentially want me to fart wetly into a microphone for an hour.
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So I wanted to ask a more general creativity question of the thread; I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to talk about it but I'm a writer of fiction and thought others might have a similar dilemma. I've worked in retail most of my life. Previously I've been able to daydream on-shift and often come up with some of my best ideas while I'm working. In the last couple of years I got a promotion and have come under increasing pressure to handsell and upsell. I find myself dreading going to work. Often I don't have a single creative idea enter my head the entire time I'm on the clock. Sometimes I barely have a non-work related thought. When I get home I'm exhausted. I often find on my days off I have to work double hard to get my creative mind working again, since it slips into dormancy during the work week. Now the obvious solution is 'quit', and I'm working on it, but in the mean time does anybody have any advice on how to get the daydream engine rolling again?
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Mendrian posted:Now the obvious solution is 'quit', and I'm working on it, but in the mean time does anybody have any advice on how to get the daydream engine rolling again? Can you fit in any writing time before work? I totally relate to this and I found squeezing half an hour in before work was the only way to get things done. The evening is just dead time. Also try to care much less about work, but that goes without saying.
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HopperUK posted:Can you fit in any writing time before work? I totally relate to this and I found squeezing half an hour in before work was the only way to get things done. The evening is just dead time. Also try to care much less about work, but that goes without saying. Thanks for the suggestion. I find the hours before leaving are when I tend to be the most anxious, so I haven't really tried till now. But maybe getting my mind off of work is exactly what I need. Trying to not give a poo poo about work has been really difficult for me. I get really invested in poo poo and the more people tell me to do the harder I work. I blame it on my puritanical upbringing.
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