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Working against yourself
jtaylor:
Yes, If you use contractions you must be Lore in disguise. I am afraid we will have to deactivate you.
WonderandAwe:
Interesting. Not using contractions was something I did on my own. Well, in dialogue and stuff I'd use contractions, but in the rest of my writing I try not to.
Tasmin21:
It depends. *puts English major hat on* Technically...no. But for character speech, and for things that are written in first person (which is really just more character speech), it's more acceptable. Pretty sure you could probably get away with it some, I doubt there's any contraction police that are gonna come around and bust you for it (except the people that do my editing for me. Oi.)
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Tasmin21 on December 14, 2006, 12:04:20 PM ---It depends. *puts English major hat on* Technically...no. But for character speech, and for things that are written in first person (which is really just more character speech), it's more acceptable. Pretty sure you could probably get away with it some, I doubt there's any contraction police that are gonna come around and bust you for it (except the people that do my editing for me. Oi.)
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Voice is character. Sam Spade and d'Artagnan will use contractions in very different ways. Do what's right for the character.
terioncalling:
I continually work against myself. Working on one story and get an idea for another, end up abandoning Story A to work on Story B and then - lo and behold! - here comes idea for Story C.
I just get too many ideas and want to work on them all but don't have the ability to. Very frustrating. And the cause of many old stories sitting idle on my harddrive for years.
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