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  • #512
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Antilles wrote: »
    Once I noticed how often JK Rowling used "groped", it started to get annoying fast.

    Heh. My linguistic bugbear with that series was "said a voice," whenever a character made a sudden, dramatic appearance from offstage. It happened more and more frequently in the less and less well-edited later books in the series. It was particularly bad in the case of Kingsley Shacklebolt, who (it was mentioned five or six times in his six or seven appearances in book five) had a "deep voice."


  • #513
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    robert jordan's favourite word was "ostentatious" ;s


  • #514
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Time to dust off my first novel for another rewrite, I think. I really need to rethink the characters, but I don't hate it entirely. Anyone willing to beta-read chapter by chapter as I get through it?


  • #515
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,042 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I'd be happy to. As long as it's not about flax.


  • #516
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I'd be happy to. As long as it's not about flax.

    Damn, just my luck.


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  • #517
    wavehopper1
    Registered Users Posts: 355 ✭✭wavehopper1


    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    Time to dust off my first novel for another rewrite, I think. I really need to rethink the characters, but I don't hate it entirely. Anyone willing to beta-read chapter by chapter as I get through it?

    What's your genre?


  • #518
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    wavehopper1 wrote: »
    What's your genre?

    I believe they call it "literary fiction." The story is of an elderly man confronting his own death.


  • #519
    Kinski
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    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    The story is of an elderly man confronting his own Death.

    Now it's a horror novel.


  • #520
    wavehopper1
    Registered Users Posts: 355 ✭✭wavehopper1


    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    I believe they call it "literary fiction." The story is of an elderly man confronting his own death.

    If you'd like a second beta, I'd be happy to oblige.

    I'm working on a novel (aren't we all), but nowhere near the finish line.


  • #521
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Kinski wrote: »
    Now it's a horror novel.

    Fixed:
    The Mad Hatter wrote:
    The story is of an elderly flax salesman confronting his own Death.


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  • #522
    Kinski
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    Death of a Flax Salesman.


  • #523
    pickarooney
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    The Flax of Life (and Death)


  • #524
    McChubbin
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    Flaxen quim. *snort*
    Anyone here read Fifty Shades of Grey? I'm eight chapters in and finding it very similar in many senses to Twilight. I soon found out it started life as a Twilight fanfiction that then evolved and developed on it's own.
    Still, I'm intrigued.
    It's holding my attention better than Stephenie Myer ever wrote... >_>


  • #525
    The Mad Hatter
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    Antilles wrote: »
    Fixed:

    It's called Death and Flaxes.


  • #526
    Leafonthewind
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    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    Time to dust off my first novel for another rewrite, I think. I really need to rethink the characters, but I don't hate it entirely. Anyone willing to beta-read chapter by chapter as I get through it?

    If you need another pair of eyes, I'd be willing to read it as well. I happen to like flax.


  • #527
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    Just finished the first 7 pages of my second draft. I'm very pleased with the direction it's going! :D
    I won't give anything away but it's currently set in London and so far, I've introduced three characters. If anyone's interested in reading it, I might put up a "Critique Wanted" thread.


  • #528
    Noelly
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭Noelly


    McChubbin wrote: »
    Flaxen quim. *snort*
    Anyone here read Fifty Shades of Grey? I'm eight chapters in and finding it very similar in many senses to Twilight. I soon found out it started life as a Twilight fanfiction that then evolved and developed on it's own.
    Still, I'm intrigued.
    It's holding my attention better than Stephenie Myer ever wrote... >_>

    Like Twilight, really? I'm on Chapter 9, but I suppose up to chapter 8 it is a fairly innocent story, it's after that it changes a lot. Only started it earlier, but really excited for the rest of it now. Not sure why people are saying The Hunger Games readers would enjoy it though, the vast majority of them being young teenagers, I don't think it'd be exactly suitable..


  • #529
    PurpleBee
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    The Hunger Games isn't exactly innocent either!


  • #530
    Noelly
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭Noelly


    PurpleBee wrote: »
    The Hunger Games isn't exactly innocent either!

    True, but if you've read Fifty Shades Of Grey, it's in a fairly different league, parts of it are basically a BDSM journal.


  • #531
    PurpleBee
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭PurpleBee


    Haha I didn't think I was so innocent but I had to google BDSM, too early for that sort of thing. Originally I thought it was an -ism with the vowels left out


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  • #532
    Insect Overlord
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    Did some posts disappear from here, or did everyone just abandon the thread for 2 weeks?


  • #533
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,042 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Blatant abandonment of vehicles it looks like to me.


  • #534
    Toasterspark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Toasterspark


    Does it feel a little quiet around here lately? We should do another writing comp or something. I am so game for it this time, after not getting a chance last time.


  • #535
    coffee_cake
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    if yer man would hurry up and post in the arena again we'd see some action

    i've been very busy lately only getting more quiet now


  • #536
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,042 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I've been up the walls and lacking the energy to start another contest, even if it's just glorified cutting and pasting. Let fly with any madcap ideas you have.


  • #537
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I've been up the walls and lacking the energy to start another contest, even if it's just glorified cutting and pasting. Let fly with any madcap ideas you have.

    Porn-off?

    That would get the forum hit-rate up!

    I'm kind of glad yer man hasn't come back to the arena, I have something to get finished by Monday that I promised someone.

    But I will step up if someone challenges. Godammit!


  • #538
    pickarooney
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    Das Kitty wrote: »
    Porn-off?

    Do go on...


  • #539
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    Porn-off?

    you just want an excuse to write more smut :pac:


  • #540
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    bluewolf wrote: »
    you just want an excuse to write more smut :pac:

    Like I need an excuse!

    Ha ha.


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  • #541
    coffee_cake
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    Das Kitty wrote: »
    Like I need an excuse!

    Ha ha.

    I thought of that when I posted but I had to put it out there anyway ;)


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