As far as I'm concerned, the root form of 'twitter' is 'twit'.
Reminds me of back in the 70's or 80's when a lot of young people went around in blue jeans labelled to indicate that they had an ache in their jord. I never did find out where the jord is, and I doubt anyone remembers jord-ache jeans anymore. Maybe they treat it with ibuprofen now.
That's my mid-level math background showing. But then I may be slightly overeducated. (My definition of overeducated includes knowing the proper, fully inflected past tense for the common Anglo-Saxon verb for defecation.)
'Axes', plural of 'axis'.
Your point about scenes is well-taken.
Good points, but again, that's a specific bit of action. It's not the social decision-making process presented in narrative.
The difficulties I see have to do with flow of topic, question and answer, axes arising between people and groups, tension, the dynamics of coming to a decision ... all the things that get hard when you actually try to depict them.
There are guides to writing good dialogue. But what about depicting meetings? I've struggled a little, and I just completed a review that reminded me of the difficulties. Does anyone know of any guides?
I'm guessing that VW used nothing but the final period--and that she even begrudged the need for the period.
Normally a comma never follows the subject of sentence, even when the subject is a defining clause.
Unless the subject is followed by an appositive or by a word or phrase surrounded by parenthetical commas.
The first thing that strikes me about this warning is the fear of mercury poisoning. It's true that there are microgram doses of thiomersal, but that dose is far below the level known to be harmful. Governments (and presumably the WHO) set acceptable exposure levels below one percent of the lowest level at which harm has been seen or can be extrapolated. Moreover, the mercury in thiomeral is converted to ethymercury, which has a clearance half-life on 14 days. It might be longer in older people, but since it is via feces (and thus, the liver) renal problems won't be the reason.
The next thing that strikes me is that the article says "don't get the flu vaccine this year" but their arguments apply, however weakly, to all vaccines.
They argue that the vaccine isn't 100% effective. No vaccine is. All vaccinations rely on herd immunity. Even if you prefer the risk of the flu yourself, you're exposing other people to it ... and some of them may not be able to survive it.
They also argue from the number paid out in liability claims. Liability claims in the USA are notoriously unreliable--and the trial lawyers' lobby pays millions of dollars a year to keep it that way, and many more any time the words "tort reform" are named.
If one person in a million falls seriously ill after the vaccine, that does not mean the vaccine has a one-in-a-million risk. To find the actual risk, you must subtract from that one-in-a-million the risk of falling seriously ill without the vaccine, a risk that is surely at least one in a million. For true statistical accuracy you have to control for the likelihood that a person with a certain risk of illness will get the vaccine.
Oh, and the link of vaccines to autism was a fraud. Literal and exact fraud, and the authors of the one study have been prosecuted and found guilty. What's more they have admitted their guilt; their motive was to sell a vaccine without thiomersal.
That depends on what you mean to accomplish by doing it.
Narrative is not dialogue, nor dialogue narrative. Word choice in dialogue reflects many things, including character voice, state of mind, dialect and idiom, relationship between persons, circumstances, and others I can't think of right now.
Words that should be eschewed in narrative have a place in dialogue, representing state of mind, and other things besides.
Narrative for 3P close can be tinged by the character's voice as well.
Very intriguing, njc. Thanks!
So, I have a question. How do you decide what chapter comes next? At the moment, I have three different events to write and all of them are happening roughly around the same time. These events are centered around Maya, Vierra, and Dea, respectively, but now that I've broken the back and forth between Dragons and girls, I'm not sure what comes first.
I just wrote a chapter from Vierra's PoV, but I'm not sure if I should continue with her PoV or change to Maya or Dea? (Noi is out of the picture for a little bit, unfortunately)
-Elisheva
At the moment I'm rewriting, not writing. However ... sometimes I have something I want to get down, even if only in sketch, so that I don't lose it. (See my Book II). Otherwise, I have at least a rough map of threads and either pick the one with that I'm most ready to do or the one that has the fewest open questions.
A rule of design: Solve the hardest problems first, while you have the most open choices. You may not be able to complete that part of the design, but use as many of your unforced choices as you need for the hardest problems. That will force and constrain other choices, but since the subsequent problems are easier, you will need fewer degrees of freedom for them. Once in a while, you'll have to backtrack, but that's what design is about.
But maybe the question isn't what you write first, but what you place first. I'll have to think about that.
If you have time, and if you don't mind reading a very intense real-life war story, you might profit from reading House to House. The first-person author is SSgt David Bellavia, but he had a very solid professional writer working with him. The structure of tension and release is almost symphonic. I'm nowhere near achieving that, but it's something to strive for.
That's what subverted tropes are about. (See tvtropes.org?)
Amy, I've got the review. I'll reply later in the day.
Of possible interest, for the process of self-discovery-- https://books.google.com/books?id=HWr8AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT28&lpg=PT28&dq="that+action+is+suffering+and+suffering+action"&source=bl&ots=ybESpuSpLO&sig=Uu6E9qxTpZYhDrEhLBRe4hh-mXs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwCGoVChMI68qb1ffUyAIVCxg-Ch3RUQ_Z#v=onepage&q=%22that%20action%20is%20suffering%20and%20suffering%20action%22&f=false
You are expecting that. (Was that the Royal `We`?) The rest of us should be watching and listening.
But I'll give you this: Merran should be more alarmed at disturbing the thing.
Okay, I've got a starting point for what happens when Nikkano scries too far. And maybe even a kloo or two.
Also possible: Joscelynne, Josalynne, Jossilynne, ...
=Bored of the Rings= is still in print, K.
Speaking of which, if you want to rename, 'Zimpek'.
So, Amy, have we heard the last from/of Zyrtec?
I believe K's effort spurred IBM to develop their Watson supercomputer.
(a like apple) A-deh-mar is how I pronounce it.
Other pronunciations have the a longer like "Ah". Ah-dee-mar
Could you drop the 'h' then? Or doubling the trailing 'r'? `Adamarr`?
Is the 'dh' in Adhemar two seperate letters or a blended sound, like the Edh or a Brooklyn 'th'?
Would spelling changes work for you?
