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  • 275 weeks
    *Update Post* Moving Forward as Planned

    See, I told you it wouldn't be so long before you heard from me again. I just thought I'd give you all an update on my work. Things are looking good. Right now I think I'm at about the half way point of chapter 3. I haven't gotten to the point where the main story takes off, but it's not that far off; it'll happen before this chapter is over. I might still wait until chapter 4 to begin posting

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  • 276 weeks
    Back at it. For real this time

    Hey guys, just wanted to pop on to let you know that I'm back to writing. Over the last few days, I've found myself at my desk (oh, I have a desk now), writing a page or more before bed. I'm actually halfway through chapter two, and still going strong. I chock this burst of creativity to two things. First, the big changes that I talked about last year. If you missed the big announcement, I left

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  • 295 weeks
    Life Changes (it's about time)

    Hey guys, long time no write.

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  • 314 weeks
    Just a quick question

    Hey guys, I know it's been a really long time since I posted anything, and I'm sorry about that. I really want to write something, and in all honesty, I've actually begun work on a new story (once again featuring Shining Armor, but not really a direct sequel to The Marvelous Misadventures of Shining Armor and the CMC, more of a spiritual successor). I don't know if my last story just completely

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  • 349 weeks
    Back at it

    Hey ya'll, did you all have a good summer? I sure did. As it turned out, a vacation was exactly what I needed to get the creative juices flowing again. While I was away, I was able to jot a few things down, which I left almost untouched for a couple of weeks because of writers block. Then today, I had a bit of inspiration, and got to work fixing some of the problems, smoothing out some areas that

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Jul
29th
2014

Many minor problems fixed · 9:03pm Jul 29th, 2014

As many of you have pointed out, I used the term "faux filly" a few too many times in the first half of the story (one person actually counted 24 times in one chapter :twilightoops:) I went through the entire story, and removed all but two or three of them, so things should be good now. Also, back when I first started writing fanfics, I didn't know that when writing questions that are followed by a pronoun should look like "?" Blank asked, instead of "," Blank asked. I went through and got rid of those commas, and added the question marks in their place. I also found a few spelling errors and missing words that I needed to fix. So, yeah, I think things should be good now.

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I didn't know that when writing questions that are followed by a pronoun should look like "?" Blank asked, instead of "," Blank asked.

Yup. One of the tricks in prose. But here are many more catches when combining action with dialogues. For instance something like this:

“Your attention please,” came a voice over a loud speaker, “We will be arriving

The second comma should also be a period, since the dialogue and first action are independent sentences to the second dialogue.

Another tip: If possible, avoid doing things like this:

"Did I just asked a question?" Twilight asked.

Because here's a thing: The dialogue itself already points out that this is a question. If you have a ping-pong between two characters, you don't need to emphasize these actions. If the character is doing nothing else than saying something, you can basically omit <x> <y>. For instance:

"It's true," Twily said.

"It's not," Shining Armour replied.

"But it is. It's mathematically proven that it is so."

Shining Armour sighed. "Twily..."

Twily put hooves on her ears, closed her eyes, and turned away from her brother. "Is, is, is, is, is!"

"Now you're just being silly."

See?

Also:

“Sounds good, Twily,”

Dialogues shouldn't end with commas.

~Twi

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