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[Ursa major]

Originally Posted by Warren_Paul

Twilight of the Gods just sounds like it would give me nightmares...

But there's a bonfire party at the end....

[Warren_Paul]

I'm sure the vampires loved that.


*sigh* always fun when you decide to go through your whole book and change half the dialogue tags to action tags because you felt you were abusing good writing practice.

[Ursa major]

Sorry if I sound ignorant, but what do you mean by an action tag?


EDIT: Do you mean you're replacing "...," he said. with "...." He looked into her eyes.

[Interference]

It's one of those new-fangled games kids play these days on Wii.

We used to just call it Tag.

[springs]

I'm more worried about the abuse of writing practice...

[Warren_Paul]

Originally Posted by Ursa major

Sorry if I sound ignorant, but what do you mean by an action tag?


EDIT: Do you mean you're replacing "...," he said. with "...." He looked into her eyes.

Correct.

My fault is running them on with actions:

'Thanks,' he said, reaching towards the cup.

Now its just:

'Thanks.' He reached towards the cup.

We still know who said thanks, and the action is still there.

[springs]

Oh, those. I do a mixture of both. So, exonerated of abuse, I think.


small h in he, btw.

[Warren_Paul]

Yeah, I was just reading an editor's comments on a blog who said it was better to use action tags instead of running the sentences on, is all. I'm not sure if either way is necessarily wrong.

Edit: oh yeah, I know that. kinda threw that example together without really thinking.

[springs]

See you've edited now, and everyone's going to be look at this and scratching their heads?

[Warren_Paul]

That's the whole point.

[Ursa major]

There was only one h that could have been wrongly put in instead of the correct H.

So no scratching of heads here.

[Warren_Paul]

Originally Posted by Ursa major

There was only one h that could have been wrongly put in instead of the correct H.

I'm sure I read this line like 10 times... nicely done. ICWUDT

[springs]

Odd that, it looked nothing like "ten times".

[Ursa major]

Originally Posted by Warren_Paul

I'm sure I read this line like 10 times... nicely done. ICWUDT

Well this isn't an Aspiring Writers thread, you know.


Which is why you really oughtn't to be here, really. (And take Springs with you.)

[springs]

Now, you know me better than that, Ursa; i might dabble in the aspiring threads, I even turn up in GRRM from time to time now, but my heart lies here. And I can't go without it....