[ SECRET POST #2256 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2256 ⌋

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

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[The Most Popular Girls In School]


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[Rust and Bone]


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[My Mad Fat Diary]


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[Sailor Moon]


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[Harvest Moon: A New Beginning]


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[American Horror Story Asylum]


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[Homestuck]


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[DC Comics]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 021 secrets from Secret Submission Post #322.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Writing Help?

[(Anonymous)]

I'd think that would work, yes. Put it in the narrative with an explanation (if necessary; sometimes context will do the work for you) and thereafter you can safely use it in dialogue if you need to. Just be careful it doesn't come off as too much of... dictionary-ish thing, you know? It needs to fit the flow of the text without becoming an info-dump.

You could always try reading books that have been translated from another language. This sort of thing often crops up in translated books, when there's a particular concept that doesn't have an equivalent word in English - you wind up having to add a line to explain it.

Just a caution, though, against getting too carried away with invented words. This crops up a lot in SF and fantasy books, and one of the problems is when too many new words get dropped on the reader all at the same time. It gets confusing. And sometimes they don't even appear particularly necessary - as in, when the word is a replacement for another word that already exists in English. Basically, if the word means a particular concept that doesn't already exist in English, you can safely use it. (This applies even to, say, things like clothes. You can give a scarf an invented term if there's a reason for it not to be called a scarf - religious/cultural/whatever reasons, anything goes!)

TL;DR: Yeah, put it in the narrative text. Also, space them out, and make sure the word is necessary, and you should be good to go.

Re: Writing Help?

[(Anonymous)]

OP:

Thanks! You've put into words what I was thinking, but couldn't communicate (out of tiredness). I'll definitely at least try it and try to do it in moderation.