J’s Comments (group member since Aug 22, 2013)

J’s comments from the Bisky's Twitterling's Scribbles! group.

@Bisky - Good deal! :3 It's good to deviate from a big big story for a while. Next week some poet-dude is coming to my college and I'm attending a poetry workshop--so he's giving up poetry-writing prompts. That'll be interesting.. I never really tried poetry o.O

@Carl - That's more than the writing I managed to get done today. xD

Yikes haha. At least you caught the mistake. :3

Take a literature class at your university. :D

From what I've taken so far, the British Lit. classes seem a tad more difficult--because British Lit. goes wayyyy back more than American Lit--so the English was very different back then. Works after and from the Victorian/Romantic Age are easier. :3 We read some Canterbury Tales in the middle-ish English, and it was quite a challenge. You had read it out loud. xD

It's always fun 'converting' the narrator. I've changed third person to first once. xD Changing the character playing narrator seems much more tedious than just changing the narrative tense. But if it produces a better story, it's well worth the blood, sweat, and the jitters you get from drinking too much coffee. :3 Luckily, I haven't had those for a while---I make sure my stomach's full when I drink coffee.

@Bisky - D'aww Hello Kitty :3 - Good thought. Perhaps American authors should take a stand and bring back our adverbs! lol

@Robert - Those writers were around when the whole 'iceberg' concept came up. We read Hemingway's Snows of Kilimanjaro, and his writing style was very clean or 'pithy.' He didn't have an on-and-on descriptive style.

I always chuckle when I see Pound's name because he kind of boasted his writing. You know how many writers like to make allusions to ancient texts or other author's--well in some of his poetry, he alludes to himself. We were kind of joking around about that in my American Lit. class last spring. :3

@Bisky - I thought of doing the same, but have my story made into manga format. :3 I thought of doing my own drawings to include on some pages in the Scarlet Ribbon, but I suck at that... lol Plus I think anime drawings in a normal novel would turn some people away.

@Bisky Absolutely. When I was working on my monster (now scrapped) novel, I always had events planned out before writing. Having plans does make the flow better. I consider it as "not doing all the thinking at once." You've done some thinking already, so your brain has the ability to conjure additional thoughts. :D

@Deb - As long as you can get something down every day--notes or story or edits. :3

@Nicole - (I typed your name as "Nichole" but noticed the mistake, so if I ever spell your name wrong, don't get mad because that's the spelling of a character in my book xD ) I wrote a first person section in an old story with a female narrator. It ended up around 30,000 words (I think.) It seemed easy at the time, but I don't know how 'off' I was... I don't know xD But the writing process of my current story feels like that slowly moving creek, too. x(

@Biksy :D

And more specifically, he's into the bloody/horror writing, too, but he's more of a 'realistic' Jack-the-Ripper type writer, and I'm more supernatural. We actually started talking because he liked my Death Note t-shirt. haha xD

@Nicole Back in the day, I LOVED adverbs until I realized they are frowned upon by the fiction industry. >.> In this thread we ain't writing fiction for editors, so we can use all the adverbs we want. :D

In "super/hyper aware," your adverbs look like adjectives, so perhaps in sentences like that you could get by. :3

Hi, Chris! Welcome!

I recently learned the term speculative fiction, and I wonder if that fits my writing? Ambiguity is great--especially in creepy stories. :3

A writer/Pokemon acquaintance I have from my previous college is writing a series, and a former co-worker always talked about a book series,too.

I was working on a series, but I gave it up because it was a mess. When planning stories back in the day, I always thought of how to make them into a series. At least the story I'm working on right now is standalone (but I do have an idea for a sequel if needed.)

@Raymond/Bisky/Kamil - People always say get rid of adverbs and replace them with a more specific verb. My thought is if you can't find a verb that's applicable, use an adverb with the verb to get the idea you picture on the page. :3

@Raymond I don't know. I always think it's good to keep them away from dialogue tags. o.o I guess I try to avoid dialogue tags as much as possible. Some people say readers can interpret the voice volume with context clues. I guess it's writer's preference. :3

@Ken/Bisky - If they're getting paid, it ain't wasting their time. (I guess. lol) I love commissioning artists. I have too many posters in my bedroom. :3

@E.S. I say go for it--just see what happens. I'm sure you can work with the filmmaker to make the conversion comfortable for you. :D

@Nicole - Getting an average of over 1,000 words in a day is pretty good. That's what I try to reach when I write new content. :3

@Kay - That's mother-load writing @w@

I think the highest I've done in a day was around 3,500 words. I can't remember for sure. Back in the day, I always urged myself to hit 2,500 every day I wrote, but now it varies--I try at least 1,000. :3

Sugar cookies are the best cookies. :D

@Ken - I love the life you have given to the fog! :D
@Michael - So true. That's probably the thought most soldiers have on the battlefield. :3

Here's the opening line to my WIP. It's from my experimental prologue; it's probably my favorite part in what is "presentable." xD


A ride after dark would've put a soothing end to his evening, but Thomas Langdon had to go meet the stranger with the smudgy glasses.

@Bisky - What kind of cookie mix? @w@

@Ken - So does that mean you have a comic book artist acquaintance who could potentially do comic art for you?
:3

@David - A mini series would be cool--possibly cheaper than a theater film (I don't know much about the costs of the media industry.) I read a book in my Brit. Lit class last year and afterwards we watched the film version, and I noticed many, many lines were cut out in the film. So that's something to consider when thinking about what media you want your story adapted into. :3

Each act could end up being a whole episode. :D

I ain't much of a movie-watching guy, so many of the titles on here I haven't seen. xD

My favorite movie is Disney's Aladdin. Epic nostalgia there. But I also like Con Air, Skyfall, The World is Not Enough. I enjoy the Bond 007 films. :3

@Willow Like the saying goes, "You can't edit anything that isn't written," or it's something like that. Lately, I've been pressing myself hard not to write perfectly--it's produced a word count, so I'm satisfied. :) The first draft of my WIP is short and beyond horrible, but it's a great foundation. I can reference it during my current rewrite/adding phase.

@Kamil You are working to make your 50k word story longer, right? I say go through your storyline and see if there's a way to add more conflict. If something's going too smoothly somewhere, find a way to "frustrate" your character's desired actions. Think of it as throwing a wrench or two in a smooth-running engine. :3 Subplots are always fun, too.

From a book I read about novel outlining, the author wrote that sometimes it's good to figure out a sequence of events backwards. Your character--she will die a slow and painful death.. figure out what happens right before she finally dies... think about working your way backwards and see what you can come up with.

Sorry for babbling. xD I hope there's some sense in what I typed.

I haven't read the Odyssey; I'm guessing if I end up taking a World Literature class, I would have to read it. I know my mom had to read segments from it for her online Humanities class.

It's fun reading a book/manga from a movie/anime you watch and compare and contrast them. :3

Tomorrow and Tuesday, I'll be reading the Bible's Book of Revelation for my American Apocalyptic Literature class. :3 At my leisure I'm reading a book called "The Sorrow King." It starts out with many teenagers committing suicide. It's kind of a creepy book. o.O lol

@Carl I thought about making illustrations to put in my novel if I self publish.

@Sandrine It would be interesting to see how a movie director would interpret the manuscript text.

@Bisky A unique soundtrack for a story would be awesome. :3

Nice to meet you, too. Welcome, Susan, great to have you aboard!! :3