[bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:42:32 -0700
Hi, Roger, what a nice thing for you to say! My problem is I just can't
think up plots. I have written re-workings of ballads, but that's about it.
I get The Writer and read articles by fiction writers and some of them seem
to use dreams in writing their works, while others sit down and make
outlines. I suppose the question is, if I were to write fiction, what sort
would I write? I love genre literature, but could I write a credible
romance? Could I make up a fantasy world and what would my characters do
there? What I have done is to write extemporaneously in the voice of a
character and let him/her talk, rather like a monologue. What can be done
with that? I don't have a clue. Regards, Kim aka Ellinder.
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You might be better at writing plots than you think. There are not really
that many of them. They are just told over and over with different
characters and settings. If you can imagine characters and settings then
imagine a scenario, practically any scenario, and plug it into one of those
standard plots. You just might be better at writing than you think.
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Hi, Kim here. I don't know why this is, but I will read a book for the sake
of the story being told and not always for the writing. I've caught myself
grumbling about how writers do dialog or the purple prose used in describing
sex scenes, but I have no illusions about being an author myself. For one
thing, when it comes to making up plots I'm rotten at it. I think I might be
able to do dialog and I can think of characters' names and what they might
be like at the drop of a hat. I admire the ability to plot a story and wish
I could think up all manner of plots. So I read the stories and ask why the
hero is always the knowledgeable parti when it comes to sexual experiences
and the heroine is a sweet young thing who is initiated, shall we say. I
wonder what would happen should the author turn that little formula on its
head, letting the heroine teach the hero a thing or two. Another little
crotchet I have is I wish the author would convey the atmosphere of a
particular time by making sure the characters conversed in the style of the
time. Did anyone use the word "twit" in the nineteenth century. Would anyone
be called a twit during that time? Another thing that bugs me is to read:
""Get out of here" she hissed." Now you and I know you can't hiss and say
that sentence. Take care and best regards, Kim aka Ellinder.,
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There is a contest for people to write these things on purpose? EEE, OOO,
UGGGH.
When I ran a science fiction club, we came up with the idea of a meeting
where each person would bring an example the most cliche ridden, purplest
and most inconsistent prose they could find and read it aloud.
Kind of like the opposite of "found art."
Misha
Carrie Karnos wrote:
> About halfway through this sentence, I start screaming, "Make it stop!
> Make it stop!" For me, this is THE worst opening line ever:
>
>
> She wasn't really my type, a hard-looking but untalented
> reporter from the local cat box liner, but the first
> second that the third-rate representative of the fourth
> estate cracked open a new fifth of old Scotch, my sixth
> sense said seventh heaven was as close as an eighth note
> from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, so, nervous as a tenth
> grader drowning in eleventh-hour cramming for a physics
> exam, I swept her into my longing arms, and, humming "The
> Twelfth of Never," I got lucky on Friday the thirteenth.
> --Wm. W. "Buddy" Ocheltree, Port Townsend, Washington
> (1993 Winner)
>
> See what I mean??
>
> Carrie
>
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