So now that I have at last brought another major player back into the plot, I find myself at a crossroads of indecision. Ironically Gravelord Nito was about the only NPC from Dark Souls that I could almost immediately assign a voice to, yet amidst the forums, parodies, and other fan related media for the franchise, the opinion is pretty much unanimous that he remain silent.
This is Grammer a Week, the periodic blog program-thing where I address a frequently broken grammar rule and tell you how to fix it. This week's installment is about quotation marks. The rules for placing punctuation about quotation marks are complicated. Each of the comma, period, exclamation point, and question mark have multiple rules for placement. What's worse, those rules change depending on where you live!
So earlier today I uploaded a story for you guys, but it failed moderation because "Putting an MLP episode through a translator doesn't count as writing a story."
Okay, fair enough. So I'll just post it here then. Enjoy!
Quick tip: Read the dialogue in your head with the characters voices as seriously as possible for maximum enjoyment.
"How to Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps" isn't pony, but man if I don't think it, at under 1900 words, is worth your time. I don't actually know if it's fiction or not, and I don't think it matters, because was easily the best thing I've read so far this weekend.
Lithium-ion batteries are much harder to charge than "regular" Ni-mh or Ni-cad batteries, as they have a tendency to catch fire, overheat, or explode depending on how they're handled.
After failing on the highest possible level of facepalm, former graphics card manufacturer 3Dfx was consumed entirely by Nvidia, it's biggest rival.
My bookshelf is more book then shelf.
BONUS: Horrible dialogue that I came up with last night:
I've written a lot of Equestrian dialogue in this story, but never bothered to translate it in the story itself. I wanted to leave it a mystery for the reader---and besides, from my experimentation I found in-story translations to be rather tacky. But now that it's complete (including the paper explaining the phonology, grammar, and so forth), I think it's high time to pull the curtains back and show the reader what the hell the ponies have been saying all along.
This is for the Fanfic That I am Writing and I was practicing Writing Dialogue.
When I write Applejack's dialogue, I tend to spell her words using standardised spelling instead of "ah's" (I), and "-'in" (-ing). To me, using specific terms (e.g. howdy, partner) with the rest spelled in a standard form is adequate, because the reader should imagine Applejack speaking with her country accent instead of relying on an accent-ised spelling.
Today's topic is a bit of the inverse of the one I wrote last week. I didn't intend for this at first—in fact I had no plans for an inverse article when I sat down last Monday; the appearance of this one is entirely coincidence brought about by something I was reading.
It's something dumb and short.
Probably not all that funny. But it is an idea that I bounced off a helpful person a while back.
I decided why not.
Also helped that I planned for it to be a real short thing.
If MLP was made into a fighting game, how would the characters interact before for during combat? This is based on dialogues from the Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2 games:
For this edition, it’s about Twilight interacting with other characters before the fight or during clashes:
Twilight vs. Twilight
Just a short blog here about writing in general and a realization I've had and want to get on writing.
So, when I say positioning, I don't mean simple thinking about where your characters are in relation to each other. Though it is related, but while having a conversation with my family, I've more and more realized that within every conversation, every participant is in a certain position.
Hopefully this will be a short one. After the longer-than-average posts the last few weeks, I’d like to get a quicker, shorter Being a Better Writer post in so I can jump back to closing up Jungle once and for all!
I remember this one blog or forum post that involved imagining how would the MLP characters interact in a fighting game right before they fight or clash. (If anyone knows where to find that particular post, feel free to send me a link of it through the comments or in private messaging) Examples of these dialogues and clashes would be like in the Mortal Kombat or Injustice games:
It's been a while since I've written one of these, but I've been hanging around in FimFiction's Discord's Writing Help chats, and one of the most common things I've been seeing is difficulty with character voicing. Character voicing is hard. It's what's important to making characters stand out from each other. So I thought I'd write a little blog about some of my thoughts on Word Choice in relation to a character's voice.
Something I'm wondering about. Would like to hear some other people's opinion on it.
There are two stories. Both these stories have a scene where two characters are talking. However, in one story, the scene is considered entertaining, but in the other, it is boring.
It's time for another Classic Being a Better Writer post! Rejoice, newcomers and old fans alike, and get ready to travel back in time to an older day, a day wherein writing topics were discussed!
Check out the group Dialogue-Only Stories. I have 7 stories there. Selbi has 5.
I feel nice.
Also my latest shitfic lost me two followers. :B
New chapter for What They Expect to Give is up and ready to read. I'm really glad I had that ready ahead of time. The extra time from my last read let me see something that even my two editors had missed. It's so refreshing to be ahead of an update schedule for once!
Hello readers! It’s Tuesday, which if you’re a long-time reader of this site, you know is a little unusual for a Being a Better Writer post, usually only happening on the occurrences of a holiday or a work shift taking me away on Monday.
Yesterday was the former. I hope you all made the most of it!
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