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Juia_Darkcrest reacted to Anonjohn20's post in the thread Are 'em dashes' a put off simply because AI uses it a lot? with
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I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet, but AI didn't kill the em dash; keyboards did. If you look down at your keyboard, there... -
:blob_highfive: Just broke 100 readers overall. Finally in the triple digits now, and I wouldn't have gotten here without those of you...
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Juia_Darkcrest updated their status.So I just woke up from a nap and had a lucid dream, where I owned a company that made canvas canopies and how-to videos for DIY canopies...
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Juia_Darkcrest reacted to MFontana's post in the thread Are 'em dashes' a put off simply because AI uses it a lot? with Like.
First, a little nitpick. The "simple dash" is referred to as a hyphen. Now, on to the question itself. I don't ever use them. Never...
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Juia_Darkcrest reacted to TinaMigarlo's post in the thread Writing How important are dialogue tags in your fiction? with Like.
Reading it is no problem. I was raised on paperbacks. What drives me c-r-a-z-y is the autistic nitpicking about all the rules writing it...
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Juia_Darkcrest reacted to Hans.Edward.Trondheim's post in the thread Writing How important are dialogue tags in your fiction? with Like.
I write Original English Light Novels (OELNs), and writing in that style will require me to have chapters with about 75%-90% dialogues...
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Juia_Darkcrest commented on Quacky's profile post.yep... not exactly good for you though
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Sometimes eating raw salt crystals feels good.
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I can't even write a short note of 50 words...🙀
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Juia_Darkcrest updated their status.One day at university, during a chemistry exam, I had to write a 1000-word essay on acid. Unfortunately, my pen turned into a Gorilla...
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Juia_Darkcrest reacted to RepresentingEnvy's post in the thread Writing How important are dialogue tags in your fiction? with Haha.
"As long as you don't use chortle!" BearlyAlive ejaculated. "Everything else could work."
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Juia_Darkcrest reacted to BearlyAlive's post in the thread Writing How important are dialogue tags in your fiction? with Haha.
As long as you don't use "chortle" everything else is forgivable. Everything has a place it could work. Unless you use "ejaculate" as...
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Juia_Darkcrest reacted to xizl's post in the thread Writing How important are dialogue tags in your fiction? with Like.
From 'Elements of Style, Fourth Edition': “ Dialogue is a total loss unless you indicate who the speaker is. In long dialogue passages...
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Juia_Darkcrest reacted to rainchip's post in the thread Writing How important are dialogue tags in your fiction? with Haha.
I try to keep it simple, I use said, unless they really did shout or yell or something. It's better to bridge the dialogue with an...
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Juia_Darkcrest replied to the thread Writing How important are dialogue tags in your fiction?.so something like this would drive you nuts? "Do you think this is a good idea? We won't have any idea what we will be facing until...