[ SECRET POST #3846 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3846 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: Fanfic Gripes/Likes

[(Anonymous)]

What kinda gets me about that is that it's, like, the first piece of writing advice that anyone ever gives

Re: Fanfic Gripes/Likes

[(Anonymous)]

It did used to be. There's this godawful writing advice post floating around Tumblr that gives the worse advice I've ever seen. All the professional editors in the world are probably mauling themselves with their red pens right now because of it.

I wish I could find it but there was a fandom secret about it a little while ago. Some of the advice was stuff like find alternatives to 'said'. It was cringeworthy.

Re: Fanfic Gripes/Likes

[greghousesgf]

there's a middle ground between using "said" too much and not using it enough.

Re: Fanfic Gripes/Likes

[(Anonymous)]

OP Of course there is. That advice post says to use extremely obtrusive alternatives, though, rather than making who's speaking and in what manner they're saying it obvious through in-character dialogue and context.

Imagine if every new line had a brand new dialogue tag and nearly all of them were pointless:

"Hi," Adam said.
"Yo," Eve whispered.
"Eating apples is wrong," Adam opined.
"Gonna eat the shit out of this apple anyway," Eve uttered.
"Oooh, God isn't gonna like that," Adam asserted.

See? Terrible. But that's what the post I was thinking of was advising.

Re: Fanfic Gripes/Likes

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if I've seen that post, but your vitriol for it reminds me of the writing advice post I saw (that I think was made by a professional writer) that gave me a similar reaction. His advice was to drop "thought" verbs, like "Gary knew Sally hated him", and replace it with a wall of descriptive text. I understand on one level that he was trying to encourage "show, don't tell", but the examples he gave just didn't read well AT ALL, and I remained baffled that most of the responses to that post seem to be positive.

Then again, maybe that's just me. I'll let you decide for yourselves; https://litreactor.com/essays/chuck-palahniuk/nuts-and-bolts-%E2%80%9Cthought%E2%80%9D-verbs