Heh. It's good when I live up to my name! Then I don't get that question, "WHY AREN'T YOU BEING JOYFUL?" Which is clever enough for some people but TERRIBLY AGGRAVATING when I am depressed!
Using a bound thesaurus helps focus my thoughts,
This is interesting! I almost always need a thesuaurs to be as immediate as possible, or else I lose the flow of what I'm writing.
Yes, the word has to have the right flavor -- and weight. Can't throw the sentence off balance. It also has to have the right cadence when I hear it in my mind.
You know, most people are mentioning rhythm, and it's something very important to me as a writer. I read most pieces I write out loud. I wish I knew how this works, why some things sound *right* and others do not.
I'll pick up books of poetry while I'm writing just to feel certain patterns and words, rediscover usage. ...
That actually happens with 99% of the reasearch I do for a fic. Get as thoroughly inculcated in the subject as I can, given the limits of my intellect and the timeframe, and then leave most of that off the page. I think that's probably very common -- again, old school habits.
I don't know if you saw; I did a post [Bad username or site: http://tkp.livejournal.com/22387.html @ livejournal.com]here talking about exactly this. Anyway, I think it's interesting that some people read poetry to inspire prose...I should try it sometime. Then again poetry just makes me sad because I can't do it. I've never read anything prose where I came away feeling, "I could never get anywhere close" but all the poetry I love is like that for me. I have a T S Eliot complex. I'm rambling.
And I am a huge fan of using new-to-you words in fic! Yes!!
Oh really! The one time I did it in a fic I was most trepidacious. Heh. Trepidacious, I had to look that up.
Alas, she could find my g-spot, but that dis put out the fire for me.
Compliments. Check. G-spot finding. Check. Dude, you are so picky! :o) :o)
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Heh. It's good when I live up to my name! Then I don't get that question, "WHY AREN'T YOU BEING JOYFUL?" Which is clever enough for some people but TERRIBLY AGGRAVATING when I am depressed!
Using a bound thesaurus helps focus my thoughts,
This is interesting! I almost always need a thesuaurs to be as immediate as possible, or else I lose the flow of what I'm writing.
Yes, the word has to have the right flavor -- and weight. Can't throw the sentence off balance. It also has to have the right cadence when I hear it in my mind.
You know, most people are mentioning rhythm, and it's something very important to me as a writer. I read most pieces I write out loud. I wish I knew how this works, why some things sound *right* and others do not.
I'll pick up books of poetry while I'm writing just to feel certain patterns and words, rediscover usage. ...
That actually happens with 99% of the reasearch I do for a fic. Get as thoroughly inculcated in the subject as I can, given the limits of my intellect and the timeframe, and then leave most of that off the page. I think that's probably very common -- again, old school habits.
I don't know if you saw; I did a post [Bad username or site: http://tkp.livejournal.com/22387.html @ livejournal.com]here talking about exactly this. Anyway, I think it's interesting that some people read poetry to inspire prose...I should try it sometime. Then again poetry just makes me sad because I can't do it. I've never read anything prose where I came away feeling, "I could never get anywhere close" but all the poetry I love is like that for me. I have a T S Eliot complex. I'm rambling.
And I am a huge fan of using new-to-you words in fic! Yes!!
Oh really! The one time I did it in a fic I was most trepidacious. Heh. Trepidacious, I had to look that up.
Alas, she could find my g-spot, but that dis put out the fire for me.
Compliments. Check. G-spot finding. Check. Dude, you are so picky! :o) :o)
I love your posts like whoa.
I'm glad!