I have been feeling that something was off regarding the dynamics inside of my novel.

[RepresentingCaution]

If you use them too much, they'll lose their flavor. I say save them for special occasions!

 

[Ral]

Sorry to disappoint you, but I ended up adding some after revising the story. Not much though.

Haha.

There are a sizeable number that hates (comics) sound effects. It is just never really part of prose.

In the first place, these sound effects, in their comics source, are actually more visual than text. For example, the sound effect BANG! explosion is often drawn really large with hard bold font and firy colors as if the text itself is exploding. Something like SPLOOSH! is drawn in a soft puffy font (often colored light blue) to imitate splashed water. In some cases the sound effects actually seems to interact with other elements.

Out of their comic source, all the imagery that comes from how the sound effects are drawn are gone. With the typical Roman or Arial font, they all become this very wimpy version of the actual thing.

 

[thedude3445]

I wish I can write like that constantly. It's hard for me to come up with specific words like that on the top of my head.

I dunno if Thesaurus.com can be used to search that. Not to mention using "crunch" must come up from your own imagination.

Verbs are one of the best sensory tools in the English language. Thesauruses won't have much ability to help you here, because the best verbs have a lot nuance behind them. "Crunch" in this case is a substitution for "step on" but there's so much more detail with one word change. So for authors I highly recommend studying up and practicing as many verbs as possible so that you can become a cool kid with lots of sensory detail.

Sadly though, I don't actually know any good websites or apps designed around reminding/refamiliarizing people with verbs that aren't always commonly used. Does anyone have any recommendations?