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Author Craft / Re: Books on writing?
« on: November 10, 2010, 08:01:50 PM »
Tor is having a series of columns on Books on Writing.  You all may be interested in following it.  The first one reviewed is John Scalzi's: You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/11/writers-on-writing-youre-not-fooling-anyone-when-you-take-your-laptop-to-a-coffee-shop-by-john-scalzi

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The Bar / Re: Regarding the chatroom
« on: October 12, 2010, 08:55:04 PM »
Quote from: † ۩ ۸۸ ۵ ڪ ٤ ڪ ۩ † on October 12, 2010, 08:15:46 PM
No TT people. And that isn't the symbol for Pi, that is T.T.

It doesn't mean:

Tiny Tim
Titillating Taboos
Toxic Turtles
Trailer Trash
Topsy Turvy
Tator Tots
TooToos
Toot Toots
It means Touchy Topics.

STAY AWAY from them.

(actually you might want to stay away from all of those)
Thought I'd help.

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Author Craft / Re: This is just way too funny... and true maybe
« on: September 24, 2010, 07:22:00 PM »
Quote from: Kali on September 24, 2010, 06:43:45 PM
I almost never even bother to listen to the voicemail.  I figure 1) if it's serious, they'll call back and 2) here's how 99.9% of voicemail messages go:

"Heyyyyyy, it's meeeeeee.  I'm just calling to say hiiiiiiii but I guess you're not arouuuuund.  I'll call you laterrrrrrrr.  Byeeeeeeee!"

They drive me insane.  Don't leave me a message saying you called, I have a "missed calls" thingie on my cell, I KNOW you called.  Leave a message if you have something to say, like, "Don't call me back, I just had a minute" or "I'm going out of town so I'll call when I get back" or something.  And WHY oh why oh WNY does everyone draw out every word in voicemail?  Everyone devolves into a 15-year-old girl when they leave voicemail, even the guys.

I hate the phone.

You definitely don't have to be a writer to hate the pohne, either.
My stats-major friend really won't do phone calls.  She has me or her boyfriend call automated systems like CVS for her.  But she also has had hearing problems from a very young age which skews her already naturally present bias against phones.


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DFRPG / Re: Advice on a character concept. Speedster Mage.
« on: September 24, 2010, 05:22:58 PM »
I'm totally noob to RPG so feel free to disregard my comments:

Instead of having him be super-sleep, I think it could be a fun thing to toy with instead to have him be like the 'drunken uncle' of the group.  he's (seemingly) slow witted and slow moving, even to the point where he appears clumsy most of the time because he's 'saving up' his life-span to use in combat when it's a huge advantage to be a fraction of a second faster than everyone else.  He'd almost be a panderan monk of sorts.  I think this would be more fun to work with than a super-sleepy mage.

And to clarify what i think SBB means with the speed stuff is kind of like a windcrafter.  Amara would speed up her own personal reaction times, so while everyone else is moving at full tempo, she's doing half-time.  This is a lot like what SBB is wanting his character to acheive using time magic on itself.

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Author Craft / Re: This is just way too funny... and true maybe
« on: September 24, 2010, 03:59:50 PM »
Hehe.  Thanks for sharing!
I love the last line.  "It's like dating anyone who likes to do a particular thing, you know?"

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Author Craft / Re: Get it Right!!!
« on: September 03, 2010, 06:29:00 PM »
In the spirit of lite-hearted discussion on the failings of literacy lately I present unto ya'll

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/how-to-sell-books

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Author Craft / Re: Get it Right!!!
« on: September 03, 2010, 04:25:24 PM »
Quote from: Kali on September 03, 2010, 04:23:10 PM
For all intensive purposes, that post was just a troll.

Aww the 'intensive' purpose was to at least get a smirk out of you.

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Author Craft / Re: Get it Right!!!
« on: September 03, 2010, 04:21:44 PM »
I really couldn't of cared less about these grammar fopaws.

And now I wait with baited breath to read your despatches on this comment.

It's alright though, I'm pretty sure you'll figure out I'm just pulling chains.

I hope it doesn't reign anymore today, though.  I'm sick and tired of it.

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Author Craft / Re: series shape and intermediate points of closure
« on: August 02, 2010, 08:25:02 PM »
Quote from: neurovore on August 02, 2010, 08:22:17 PM
Not a direction with which I am widely familar; Wikipedia here I come, and thank you.
You're welcome, and I hope it's fruitful for you.  I'm always happy to provide a new angle to attack a problem with.

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Author Craft / Re: series shape and intermediate points of closure
« on: August 02, 2010, 06:21:35 PM »
I'm not well-read enough to give you an example from literature, but for story-arch and closure ideas you might look to video games.  Weird I know, but it's a common enough thing in games to do an Intro Trilogy where the player learns the moves and afterwards there's resolution followed by a game-changing event that requires more episodes to resolve.  This happens in Ocarina of Time and Okami off the top of my head.  Successful video game franchises, in general, are pretty masterful at open-ended and still satisfying endings.
 

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Author Craft / Re: Plausibility check: Lawyer of the Occult
« on: July 30, 2010, 06:40:03 PM »
Quote from: Starbeam on July 30, 2010, 05:59:42 PM
I could be getting mixed up, but I believe the lawyer in the Southern vampire books is a demon.

You're not mixed up, but the lawyer is a fairy.  The Harris 'verse has plenty of text that alludes to the mechanics of fairies without spelling it out.  But basically a fairy can choose to be good (angelic) or bad (demonic) and implies that after a certain amount of time either becomes/behaves as a real angel or a real demon.  It also implies that Sookie is a trial run
(click to show/hide)
.  Again, Harris doesn't spell it out, but you can call the Lawyer either a fairy or a demon and still be correct.

Sorry MoSeS.  I didn't think it was a big enough plot point to spoiler, but my opinion isn't a good enough reason not to spoiler it.

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Author Craft / Re: I write like...
« on: July 20, 2010, 07:53:17 PM »
I entered some technical documentation text I've been working on for the last week and it told me I write like Dan Brown.
I find this hilarious.  Apparently he avoids action verbs that aren't "is" for his fictional writing the way I do in my technical writing? :P
Note to self: Never read Dan Brown.

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Author Craft / Re: Guess I'm going to Dallas.
« on: July 08, 2010, 06:10:12 PM »
I live here, so probably! :P
ETA:
Actually I thought this would be the other DFW Convention. The authors and fans one Steven Brust went to last year.  So probably Not to the writer convention, but probably Yes to the other one when it rolls around again.

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Author Craft / Re: Pacing of information in a fictional world
« on: June 16, 2010, 06:07:40 PM »
Maybe put some of her research paper titles into a convo at some point like.
"Wow, it's nice to meet you Dr. Spoopenstein, I really was impressed by your paper, "Blue aliens like Green tea."

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Author Craft / Re: Pacing of information in a fictional world
« on: June 16, 2010, 04:26:55 PM »
Quote from: neurovore on June 16, 2010, 03:21:52 PM
Yes, though, tools showing up that I'd not already considered would be a good thing too.
The only author I can think of that doesn't use a 'tool' is Neal S.  And you already said you didn't want to try to write like him. And aside from that, he doesn't get the whole of his potential audience because a lot of would-be SciFi readers don't have the patience to learn a new vocabulary every time the pick up a book entirely from context clues.

Although... Have you read Lovelock?  It's by Orson Scott Card & Kathryn Kidd.   If you haven't read it, it's worth a read.  I can't think of any tools that they used.  There's no 'talking book', or 'newbie character' or 'nerdy historian'. 

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