You know, this is a really good subject. Every now and then, to avoid the aforementioned Effect, I think every writer should really step back, take a deep breath, and look at things that they need to work on. Even when happy with their writing over all... there are still things that bother us every day, but we just kinda roll over in an attempt to GET SHIT DONE.
A lot of your notes apply to me as well. The unlikely verbs, for one, that seem to make sense at the time. Unlike you, I am terrible at dialogue, because I don't have much of it in life, and when I do its with weirdos who speak odd English-- such as uber nerds or... you know, my husband, who speaks that funky Indian English. I try and note dialogue a lot when I read certain people-- you're one of them.
Extra interesting is the idea of visualizing a paragraph. I like the way a complete paragraph looks, particularly when it contains both dialogue and description, but I've never even though of visualizing it beforehand. I can see how this would be brilliant for a magazine however-- my aunt is a freelance graphic designer who does a lot of page layout, and she talks about something like this sometimes. It sounds brilliant, I'd love to be able to manage it!
This is a topic that bears thinking about though. God knows I have a laundry list, I've just never bothered to solidify it.
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Date: 20/2/08 06:02 pm (UTC)A lot of your notes apply to me as well. The unlikely verbs, for one, that seem to make sense at the time. Unlike you, I am terrible at dialogue, because I don't have much of it in life, and when I do its with weirdos who speak odd English-- such as uber nerds or... you know, my husband, who speaks that funky Indian English. I try and note dialogue a lot when I read certain people-- you're one of them.
Extra interesting is the idea of visualizing a paragraph. I like the way a complete paragraph looks, particularly when it contains both dialogue and description, but I've never even though of visualizing it beforehand. I can see how this would be brilliant for a magazine however-- my aunt is a freelance graphic designer who does a lot of page layout, and she talks about something like this sometimes. It sounds brilliant, I'd love to be able to manage it!
This is a topic that bears thinking about though. God knows I have a laundry list, I've just never bothered to solidify it.