[ SECRET POST #2702 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2702 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Fic rants

[inkdust]

Hah, yeah apparently not. The majority of what I've read about writing says it's best to reduce dialogue tags in favor of action tags, and then when a dialogue tag is needed to use "said" more often than not - the idea is that the brain tends to skip over "said" and not notice it. Not always true for everyone, I suppose :)

Re: Fic rants

[crunchysunrises]

The thing about How To Write books is that they change according to the prevailing wisdom of the era in which they're written. They're not meaningless, exactly, but they are an excellent gauge of what's trendy in writing circles at the time that they're written.

They're also highly subjective as seen in that tidbit about how (that particular writer's) brain functions, but their opinions are often applied across the board. And it's interesting to me how few of them are written by writers who are raking it in over their prose. A few are written by that type, but not many.

All of that said, there are definitely some interesting/good ideas in them, but take them with a grain of salt.

But a lot of popular/classic/modern classics don't follow those rules. Frex, the beginning of JKR's HP & the Sorcerer's Stone breaks several majority "writing rules" in favor of telling a good story. And it certainly seems to have paid off.

Re: Fic rants

[inkdust]

Oh, certainly, all advice changes with the wind. I just agreed with them on this one. It makes sense to me to try in most cases to convey the tone of dialogue through other means. But descriptive tags definitely have a place, especially in books like HP.