Round 22, Hour 4
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fic_rush_48For an outstanding book on writing: Ursula LeGuin, Steering the Craft.
For a splendid book on language: Arthur Plotnik's Spunk and Bite, A Writer's Guide to Punchier, More Engaging Language & Style.
For a fine guide to punctuation: Karen Gordon's The Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed.
"The rhythms of prose . . . are usually hidden or obscure, not obvious. They may be long and large, involving the whole shape of a story, the whole course of events of a novel: so large they're hard to see, like the shapes of the mountains when you're driving on a mountain road. But the mountains are there." -- Steering the Craft, p. 54
"Teachers trying to get school kids to write clearly, and journalists with their weird rules of writing, have filled a lot of heads with the notion that the only good sentence is a short sentence. This is true for convicted criminals." -- ibid., p. 40
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Date: 2011-10-22 03:05 am (UTC)Good luck to all you writers in other time zones!
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Date: 2011-10-22 03:08 am (UTC)74 words last hour for a total of 530 thus far, and one Five Things done, dusted and posted.
Watching another Simpson's Halloween Special now, and then WEREWOLF!
*rolls, rolls, rolls in ze hay*
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Date: 2011-10-22 03:14 am (UTC)I have had moderate success re-ordering segments and no success working out how to fill the gaps...
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Date: 2011-10-22 07:39 am (UTC)(How cracky is it supposed to be?)
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Date: 2011-10-22 07:48 am (UTC)The problem is it started off cracky but now I am trying to apply logic to it and tying myself in knots...
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Date: 2011-10-22 07:54 am (UTC)If it is cracky, you can surely have as many dead spooks as you like, because obviously most of them are Not Dead. And might have things to say about the current running of the Grid. Plus, it was all Tessa and the Russians! And Jools, out of revenge of not being in it for 10 years. (Sorry.)
I look forward to it. Although if it is spoilery, it will be a long wait!
:-D
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Date: 2011-10-23 08:05 am (UTC)There will be a LITTLE bit of spoileryness. I am trying to avoid big spoileryness in the hope you'll be able to read it, but then, by the time I finish it you might be caught up anyway...
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Date: 2011-10-23 11:58 am (UTC)Aw. Well, I'll get to it some time anyway, because I'm not going to go around forever not having seen how Spooks ended.
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Date: 2011-10-23 12:19 pm (UTC)(According to Pitry, Giraffes are evil aliens bent on world domination anyway.)
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Date: 2011-10-22 03:57 pm (UTC)Oy, that sounds familiar. o_O Good luck - retroactive, real-time, or futuristic - with untying yourself and re-crackifying your fic! *is catching up on last night's posts*
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Date: 2011-10-22 03:16 am (UTC)Or is that just me?
Creepy...
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Date: 2011-10-22 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-22 03:51 am (UTC)...I'm going to write all my future beta requests as personal ads from now on, embrace my creepiness in all its glory!
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Date: 2011-10-22 04:02 am (UTC)"Hey, baby, do you do oral history?"
"Can you be anal about grammar?"
I do NOT believe I just said that. *facepalm*
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Date: 2011-10-22 04:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-22 04:02 pm (UTC)*scowls sternly at brain* *finds this very hard because is not good at turning forehead inside out* *should really eat breakfast and stop talking nonsense* ;P
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Date: 2011-10-22 03:17 am (UTC)As for this hour. My muse and I are going over what I've previously written for my
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Date: 2011-10-22 03:42 am (UTC)Laurie