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Questions to ponder part 11

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Nijntje:
Hell no!
I really feel I need to describe the surroundings and stuff for a scene or story to be considered good in my mind.

mare:
Hrmm I'm kind of torn on that one. I think depending on the skill of the writer, that might actually work. The idea itself is pretty creative when you think about it, but it's all in the execution. I mean there is a way you can be descriptive enough to convey emotion within a conversation. In that way it's really no different from reading a script format or simply dialogue. I remember once I issued a dialogue challenge on the forum where you had to write an entire short story ONLY using dialogue and an admission from me, when something is too overly wordy and descriptive and I have invested time in it and want to know what happens, my eyes go straight to the dialogue to help move the chapter along. Kind of like this answer is being too overly wordy lol

So, to sum up, if it was written by an author I knew was pretty good and the the plot itself seemed worth it, I'd give it a try, but if there was no substance to it, I'd click away and never look back and shake my head about a missed opportunity. LOL

usako:
To answer my own question, I've tried once to write it, though it wasn't text messages but messages left by Brian on Nick's phone. And I admit that, while at first it seemed a great idea, I found myself having to change it and start adding scenes of descriptions and dialogues because I felt I couldn't give the perfect image of what I wanted to say.

julilly:
I imagine writing in texts would be the same as dialogue. I've done that dialogue story challenge twice, once in HS and once with you guys. The one I wrote in HS won an award bc I was still able to paint a picture of the scene without using any description. That's the basis of "show, not tell" after all, just have the characters describe the scene in a way that isn't awkward. So I think a text would work the same!

Also, Tracy, I'm sure with two thanksgiving holidays and Christmas upon us there will be further cranberry arguments/discussions lol

Rose:

--- Quote from: mare on September 25, 2013, 05:35:59 PM ---Thought I'd change the title since we really aren't asking a question of the day anymore LOL

Here's an interesting question: As a writer, when you leave feedback do you tend to leave it from the POV of how you usually write? For instance, if you are a suspense writer and leaving a review for a sci fi writer, do you tend to ask questions about something in the story that might seem unimportant for sci fi but you catch it from your suspense eye?

When you read your reviews, do you ever notice that happening to you? Can you tell when someone outside of the genre you have written is reviewing just based on what they ask and say?

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I meant to answer this but haven't yet lol. I think I usually latch on to whatever torture or bad thing that's happening at the moment and LOL. Or I cheer for the villain/fall in love with him like I have with Mare's lately. Which isn't really based on the genre's I write, more that I'm just a touch crazy.


--- Quote from: julilly on September 27, 2013, 09:13:18 PM ---Stephen King was on The View today and they ran down a list asking him "where did you get the idea for..." So my question is this - what was your most unusual bit of inspiration, something that lead you to include it either as a major plot point or small addition to a story?

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Most unusual? That's a good one. Probably 1000 Ways To Kill Nick Carter. That literally came from twitter and me thinking since so many authors are mean to Nick we should just turn him into "Kenny" and kill him repeatedly LOL. 00Carter came from talking about hot cocoa while trying to defeat Tanja... and RMTW was literally a "what if" that came from nowhere LOL.

A lot of 00Carter is virtually random things we decide to mock LOL.

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