I have read Joyce before...and kind of get high off the sound.(Except for Portrait..., which I read in hs and killed my buzz.) But the understanding, NSM. Literary Accent-Oost?
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
A 'go team me' bulletin: 9 pages written yesterday. 53 pages total for this month, which is a blazing fast pace for me. Yesterday I also read through about a hundred pages of old prose of another linked story to this one and actually kind of liked it.
Hey, I'm impressed! Go Theo.
Nine in one day! Wow!
And it's all pretty much one conversation. I should gag my characters more often, but then they'd start miming out stuff....
No, no, no, dialog rocks. I love writing dialog, but I've never gotten it to last nine pages. (I don't think. I'd have to check.)
I'll send over some of my characters with a cup of chatter. You will be sorry.
Also, the conversation these characters are having hasn't finished yet. And they're about to be interupted by a third character bearing news that they will have to discuss. Possibly shouting will be involved.
I assume they're not just standing around, though. Arguing while you're driving on a snowy highway is always interesting.
No, they're in a kitchen. Actually, one of the characters manages to eat breakfast while all this is going on, but then he's a teenager so I figure his appetite hasn't been much affected.