Yay, Sox! Congrats.
Yay, Dana! Congrats.
Angel: He is dead. Technically, he's undead. It's a zombie. Connor: What's a zombie? Angel: It's an undead thing. Connor: Like you? Angel: No, zombies are slow-moving, dimwitted things that crave human flesh. Connor: Like you. Angel: No! It's different. Trust me.
'Destiny'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
JenP - Jan 12, 2012 3:52:56 pm PST #5013 of 6690
Burrell - Jan 12, 2012 7:23:47 pm PST #5014 of 6690
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh, congratulations to Sox and Dana!
Typo Boy - Jan 12, 2012 7:38:08 pm PST #5015 of 6690
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Soxgratulation! Danariffic!
SailAweigh - Jan 13, 2012 4:56:28 pm PST #5016 of 6690
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Congrats, Dana and Sox! Our list of published Buffistas is growing apace.
Ginger - Jan 13, 2012 5:31:39 pm PST #5017 of 6690
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Amazon is rife with fake authors selling e-books ripped word-for-word from stories posted on sites like Literotica, plus any number of published sources [link]
Writing a book is hard. All those torturous hours an author has to spend creating, crafting, culling until nonsensical words are transformed into engaging prose. It's a whole lot easier to copy and paste someone else's work, slap your name on top, and wait for the money to roll in. This creates a strong economic incentive, with fake authors--Sharazade thinks it's possible they are organized gangs based in Asia--earning 70% royalty rates on every sale, earning far more than a spammer could with click fraud.
(The author doesn't seem to understand that SOPA can block legitimate sites for the thinnest of reasons, but is unlikely to affect organized plagiarism gangs in Asia.)
Gudanov - Jan 18, 2012 12:19:12 pm PST #5018 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Grammar question.
I have a sentence like so.
“I think,” the deep-voiced man paused as if considering, “that one will do nicely”
My overriding thought is that this is a parenthetical expression offset by commas. However, my dialog punctuating thought is that you can't pause speech so I should have full stops. My third thought is that I should use ("I think..." the deep-voiced etc.) but in that case maybe it should be ("I think... that one will do nicely.") since the pause is there in punctuation.
Any opinions?
Amy - Jan 18, 2012 12:42:18 pm PST #5019 of 6690
Because books.
The way it's structured, the action would be set off from the speech with em dashes. Or you could indicate the pause with the ellipses, like you said.
Em dashes are fine if you want to use them; it's in the Chicago Manual of Style and everything. Like so:
“I think”--the deep-voiced man paused as if considering--“that one will do nicely.”
Connie Neil - Jan 18, 2012 12:48:18 pm PST #5020 of 6690
brillig
I like your original method, Gud. I know I've used it. I used to go with the dashes, but they're visually very abrupt, and I think it interferes with the musing quality of the statement.
Amy - Jan 18, 2012 1:10:48 pm PST #5021 of 6690
Because books.
You can always punctuate anything however you'd like. But a copy editor will change it.
Gudanov - Jan 18, 2012 3:14:13 pm PST #5022 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Thanks, all.