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skip.knox replied to the thread Victorian England.Which sort of life do you mean? Think how you might answer if a person asked you what life in America in the 2020s was like. Which part... -
skip.knox replied to the thread Four-letter words in literature....Depends on the genre (even just within fantasy), the author, and the reader. If the language is used in an erotic scene, the author...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Is "Head Hopping" Good or Bad?.I ought to have been more clear. Everything that is in the *finished* story should be there on purpose. Drafts are exempted.
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skip.knox replied to the thread Workflow to Find Non-AI Art.I used to be able to add exclusion strings: -getty for example. Because Getty and other entities have tied up billions upon billions...
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skip.knox reacted to Prince of Spires's post in the thread What Does Good Omniscient POV look like? with
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I would say you have this wrong. First person is a story written in the "I" form. I did this, I did that. You are stuck in the head of... -
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Two big examples are Lord of the Rings and Dune. They are both omniscient, though in very different styles. The Hitchhicker's Guide to...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Most recent books you bought..Two more books by Patrick Leigh Fermor, both about Greece. One, Roumeli is about northern Greece while Mani is down in the Peloponnese...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Is "Head Hopping" Good or Bad?.I find it more useful for myself not to call it head hopping. The phrase is pejorative from the start. It's switching the point of view...
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skip.knox replied to the thread How to 'kill' the he said/she said habit?.>use it less like others here have suggested. You can look elsewhere and find not merely suggestions but outright recommendations to use...
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skip.knox replied to the thread How to 'kill' the he said/she said habit?.Why are you trying to do this? Just write stuff and use the saids wherever it feels right. Make changes in the edit, sure, but not in...
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skip.knox replied to the thread How do you create your World?.First thank you for that about Tolkien. I've not read much beyond his main novels, plus Farmer Giles of Ham. WRT the MA, there is a...
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skip.knox replied to the thread How do you create your World?.It would be interesting to know how completely built was Middle Earth before Tolkien began writing stories set within it. I don't know...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Dense Prose or Rich Prose?.>literary racketeering I have adopted this phrase into my lexicon!
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That's handy to know regarding csv files. I created a spreadsheet for this purpose as well last year, but I find it more engaging to add...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Reading Tracker Recommendation.My Goodreads data is out of date now. I got frustrated with that platform and downloaded all into a spreadsheet, then started adding...