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jeauthormeme

IT STILL EXISTS

Apr 18, 2012 17:31

JE AUTHOR MEME!

Let's talk writing.

Anon on, IP logging off. Keep it fic-related, you know the deal.

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anonymous April 19 2012, 00:46:31 UTC

If you ever get sick of writing a character's name over and over so use phrases like "the other" or describe them by characteristic ("the baker" "the brown-eyed man"), please read this:

http://trickster.org/arduinna/epithet.html

anonymous April 19 2012, 01:29:41 UTC

Good one, thanks for linking! Now I know why I'm always bothered by epithets.

anonymous April 19 2012, 01:31:35 UTC

Yeah, I'd always had trouble identifying what exactly irritated me about them.

anonymous April 19 2012, 02:52:34 UTC

Thanks so much for this, I feel its better to just repeat the name.

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anonymous April 19 2012, 00:53:40 UTC

I'm really horrified by this writer I see who keeps posting new chapters of her fic with the title spelled differently in the subject line vs the fic header. It's awkward but understandable when you do it once, but every new chapter?

anonymous April 19 2012, 01:02:04 UTC

perils of copying and pasting?

anonymous April 19 2012, 01:07:58 UTC

But how can she not notice? She's on the 16th chapter already gdi.

anonymous April 19 2012, 01:10:46 UTC

clearly her beta is dead, sleeping, or nonexistent. maybe she should invest in autocorrect

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anonymous April 19 2012, 01:05:50 UTC

top three most underrated/overrated authors out there, go:

anonymous April 19 2012, 01:17:27 UTC

OVERRATED!!
William Shakespeare
Leo Tolstoy
Ernest Hemingway

anonymous April 19 2012, 01:20:56 UTC

HDU Shakespeare is awesome.

I vote John Steinbeck to fill his place.

anonymous April 19 2012, 01:22:07 UTC

I was torn between Steinbeck and Faulkner for my #4

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anonymous April 19 2012, 01:19:57 UTC

I hate it when people get defensive over criticism of their characterization. Personally, I like to see characterizations that come from the author's experience with the character, rather than their experience with derivative works (i.e. other authors' writings. unfortunately also bad translations, which is just frustrating).

And sometimes people are so bad with characterizing that their characters are more like caricatures with only one defining feature.

anonymous April 19 2012, 01:26:09 UTC

I'm glad kizuna_exchange made that announcement about commenting etique. It depressed me that such announcement had to be made.

anonymous April 19 2012, 01:29:08 UTC

what happened exactly? i havent been following that exchange at all this year <<

anonymous April 19 2012, 01:32:10 UTC

Someone commented on the fic written for her in an extremely rude manner.

anonymous April 19 2012, 01:34:35 UTC

oh c'mon, more details than that - any names?

everyone loves a gossip

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