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hownowwit1 reblogged your post:someone on reddit misspelled destroyed as destroid...
Either it must revolve around the imminent destruction of Earth by an asteroid, or somehow involve the threat of...
Look, you’re going to have to finish that yourself or we’ll end up in porn.
Hey. I've been following your blog and realized you enjoy many of the books that I do. Wanted to get your opinion, please. What Ursula K Le Guin books would you recommend? Or which book (series?) is best to start with? (If you've read books by her, that is. I don't recall if you have.) I just heard about her works and wanted to give them a try. Thank you. :)
sorry, i haven’t read any of her books!
hownowwit1 replied to your post “hownowwit1 replied to your post “HOLY FUCK GUYS, IT’S ALMOST CRITICAL...”
Oh I’m an uber newbie! Just stumbled across it a couple of days ago and started watching the first recording from the second campaign. (And I never saw the first! So I’m torn between watching the first campaign or just catching up with the second. Leaning towards the latter.) So long winded answer is I know nothing. Except their names and species and general temperaments.
uh well id watch just the second cause the first is really long and unrelated. Also i recommend ignoring all my posts or blocking critical role spoilers for the next couple hours @hownowwit1
hownowwit1 replied to your post “HOLY FUCK GUYS, IT’S ALMOST CRITICAL ROLE TIME!!”
You watch critical role! I just started watching it! :D
Just started or started recently and are caught up? Cause Im on the new ep streaming right now, and i don’t wanna spoil you @hownowwit1
hownowwit1 replied to your post “fenway03 reblogged your post and added:It’s called “City of Angels”...”
I missed part of this conversation and am curious. Do I want to know to what this is referring?
Haha, well... I reblogged a post about the Reverse Amy Acker Effect. Since 2 of her major characters both died in season 5 of their shows and were brought back as gods, the reverse effect would be to have her be a God FIRST, who then turns into a human.
Fenway03 was just reminding us of City of Angels’ plotline and unfortunate ending.
You mentioned abuse of the em dash in your response to summer's question. Can I ask you to elaborate on that? I won't lie. I utilize the em dash when I feel it's appropriate, but I do see instances where writers use them in every frickin paragraph, disrupting sentences unnecessarily by inserting sentences within them. That's overuse, of course. But what's the perspective from an editor? What's too much? Obviously it varies from person to person, but in general?
The em dash, once people learn about it, soon becomes their favorite method of punctuation. Which is fine, provided it is used well, and not like it’s being aimed at the text like a machete, hacking it up into illegible choppy segments.
My general rule of thumb is that the em dash is fine to use in place of commas to make reading tone* easier—provided the information is interesting and vital—and not just inane rambling. Often times it is not the use of the em dash that is the problem, but the inclusion of unnecessary information to the text.
It can also be used instead of parenthesis (which can often seem rather formal in fiction writing), to add more info. The em dash is a bit more flashy than parenthesis however, which is accepted to be a bit more subtle. So if you want to draw emphasis to something, use them em dash, if subtlety is your aim, use parenthesis. Sort of like the difference between a shout and a whisper.
And of course it can also be used in place of a colon—to add emphasis to a final line.
Generally speaking, so long as you’re not using more than two per line, you’re fine. But again, it depends on how it is being used. I’ve seen it used twice in one line in the same way you would use a colon, in which case that shit needs to be a whole new sentence of its own.
So there’s no harm in using one or two every paragraph. It’s just learning when to use them, and when it’s okay to trust in the oxford comma.
Does that help? It’s late and I’m sort of running out of steam but I hope that helps clarify this for some people.
*the overuse of commas can be just as equally annoying, and can often create a sort of breathless quality to the narrative. The em dash in this instance allows the reader to draw mental breath, absorb some vital tidbit, then plunge on with the rest of the narrative.
An update! Finally!
Also on AO3.
The rest is coming next week.
WIP Guessing Game: inexplicable.
I’m honestly stunned that I haven’t used that word in my WIP, given what the story is about. I must have used every other synonym several times!
Here’s the closest we get to ‘inexplicable’...
“It’s the strangest thing. Mesmerizing and mysterious. Howcan so much light shine from a heavy security door? It’s like the whole blockis on fire and as she makes to push her fingertips against the surface sheexpects it to burn.”
