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An Ambitious Year For Writing

Jan 21, 2009 10:02

01-21-09

Current Word Count: Roller Disco Saturday Night, 121, 157 words

What I'm Reading Now: The First Quarry, by Max Allen Collins ( Read more... )

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delmarmar January 21 2009, 15:16:12 UTC

CUNNINGITIS! I ... can not ... continue.

kev_bot January 21 2009, 15:28:33 UTC

I was sixteen! I didn't know anything!!!

delmarmar January 21 2009, 15:33:39 UTC

"I’d also REALLY like a fellatio performed on me."

BWAHAHAHAHHAHA!

Oh sixteen, so precious.

kev_bot January 21 2009, 15:35:27 UTC

WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME!? "A fellatio." Sometimes indefinite articles are definite fun!

neild January 21 2009, 15:22:04 UTC

Cunningitis or conjunctivitis? Or conjunction-itis?

Do you remember Will Bryson saying that Shakespeare used "also" only about 10 times in the almost million words that he wrote? Isn't that the awesomest factoid?

kev_bot January 21 2009, 15:29:36 UTC

1. Cunningitis. It's like a disease or something. I was so young!

2. HOW IS YOUR EYE!?

3. I did remember that! That's madness!

grendelbej January 21 2009, 15:34:45 UTC

Conjunction junction what's your function?

kev_bot January 21 2009, 15:35:48 UTC

Hookin up words, and phrases, and clauses?

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anna_esq January 21 2009, 17:52:51 UTC

Doesn't Stephen King believe that you should only ever use the word "said"? Rather than intoned, moaned, grated, gasped, murmured, etc. I also remember that he hates adverbs.

kev_bot January 21 2009, 17:59:41 UTC

He SAYS that, but he uses those words himself. Robert Parker's the one who really adheres to it, to the point of using it with questions. "'Where are you going,' Susan said."

King hates adjectives, but sometimes you just need em.

anna_esq January 21 2009, 18:05:27 UTC

I think it's a balance, as with everything. Sometimes "said" doesn't say enough, but on the other hand some of the synonyms for "said" are so ridiculous that when I come across them, it's alarming and distracts from the story. Romance novelists are terrible offenders. I started wanting to keep a tally on how many times Stephenie Meyer wrote "he chuckled" in Twilight. I'm sorry, but teenage boys (even vampires) do not "chuckle." Ugh.

kev_bot January 21 2009, 18:49:04 UTC

HA! I keep wanting to use words other than "laugh" - people laugh a lot in my books - but it stretches credulity. Do people really guffaw?

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darke January 21 2009, 19:54:20 UTC

You are an inspiration.

kev_bot January 21 2009, 22:38:08 UTC

Ah, but it was you who kept the pace. I wouldn't have done my first NaNo without you.