Calling All Brits (And Hell's Angels)
Okay, guys, a couple of things.
1: I only posted three of the six chapters I have written for Find a Way to You because LJ's new posting update, while spiffy in many regards such as allowing me to copy and paste without losing my formatting and thus forcing me to clutter my word documents with html tags, has also managed to completely fuck up line breaks and by chapter 3 I'd had it with every paragraph being yards below the last and went to bed.
2: To all my British flist. Well, specifically to my English flist, I question. Which is more commonly used, attic or loft? I ask because there is a crucial scene coming up in the next chapter which takes place in an attic, and while my UK-English to American-English reference tells me that the UK term is "loft", the chaps on the Yogscast always say "attic". So I'm wondering if it's a regional thing or a class thing. Would Sherlock be more likely to say "loft"? Would John or Greg prefer the word "attic"? Is effingpot talking out of its arse and you don't actually say "loft" at all? I NEED TO KNOW THESE THINGS!
3: Do any of my flist ride motorcycles/motorbikes? If you do, tell me about them. Tell me how they feel, what they look like from the seated perspective as opposed to the side-view non-riders usually see. Tell me why you ride them, tell me which parts are which. What do you do with your feet? What do you do with your hands? What kind of support does the seat offer, is it more for the legs, the buttocks or the hips? Which parts do you actually use when riding? What is the bit where your feet go called? Really, anything you can tell me that would help me write a scene from the point of view of a motorbike enthusiast who hasn't touched a bike in two years, and make it believable. Imagine you've been separated from your bike for a couple of years, and now you see some idiot with his own bike completely failing to treat it properly. What do you focus on? Any tidbits you can come up with would help, in comments or in a message. Ta!
That's it for now. Back to the boring old story-writing.
1: I only posted three of the six chapters I have written for Find a Way to You because LJ's new posting update, while spiffy in many regards such as allowing me to copy and paste without losing my formatting and thus forcing me to clutter my word documents with html tags, has also managed to completely fuck up line breaks and by chapter 3 I'd had it with every paragraph being yards below the last and went to bed.
2: To all my British flist. Well, specifically to my English flist, I question. Which is more commonly used, attic or loft? I ask because there is a crucial scene coming up in the next chapter which takes place in an attic, and while my UK-English to American-English reference tells me that the UK term is "loft", the chaps on the Yogscast always say "attic". So I'm wondering if it's a regional thing or a class thing. Would Sherlock be more likely to say "loft"? Would John or Greg prefer the word "attic"? Is effingpot talking out of its arse and you don't actually say "loft" at all? I NEED TO KNOW THESE THINGS!
3: Do any of my flist ride motorcycles/motorbikes? If you do, tell me about them. Tell me how they feel, what they look like from the seated perspective as opposed to the side-view non-riders usually see. Tell me why you ride them, tell me which parts are which. What do you do with your feet? What do you do with your hands? What kind of support does the seat offer, is it more for the legs, the buttocks or the hips? Which parts do you actually use when riding? What is the bit where your feet go called? Really, anything you can tell me that would help me write a scene from the point of view of a motorbike enthusiast who hasn't touched a bike in two years, and make it believable. Imagine you've been separated from your bike for a couple of years, and now you see some idiot with his own bike completely failing to treat it properly. What do you focus on? Any tidbits you can come up with would help, in comments or in a message. Ta!
That's it for now. Back to the boring old story-writing.