Activity for Lauren Ipsum
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Answer | — |
A: Is translation work likely to help me develop my own writing abilities? I don't know about creative, but I imagine it will help strengthen your facility with the language. You will be working to re-create a thought, an image, a sound from a foreign language into English, keeping faithful to the original somehow while making it work in the new language. Your vocabulary an... (more) |
— | over 13 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What is the preferred way to type out ellipses? Speaking as a writer, editor, and typesetter: use three dots, no spaces. The spaces are unattractive and potentially allow the line to break mid-ellipsis. As far as the "high ASCII" character, those occasionally get chewed up in file translation (I just got a file from a client where all the smart d... (more) |
— | over 13 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How do I better handle my nameless main character when trying to retain mystery? "The man" also works. The man's job was very stressful...The man only knew his boss by one name... If you give him any other identifiers, like "tall" or "with sunglasses," that will allow you some variety. (also, use a semi-colon after "slumber" in the first sentence, not a comma.) (more) |
— | over 13 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How do you avoid purple prose? "Purple prose" is overwrought metaphors, melodramatic and clichéd phrasing, and cartoonish actions. She gasped, her snow-white breast heaving, and her emerald eyes filled with tears. "How could you! You vile beast!" she sobbed. "I loved you and you — you used me!" "I never loved you," he announced... (more) |
— | over 13 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What tools do you use for your writing journal? Applications: I cannot say enough good things about Scrivener, from Literature & Latte (for Mac). It's not a word-processing program, it's a writing program. You can organize notes, drag "notecards" and folders around, block out the rest of your screen, paste in photos and movie clips, and use a virt... (more) |
— | over 13 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Correct spelling errors while writing or after you've finished? Another suggestion: Today, you write for an hour, finish, close the document, walk away. Tomorrow, the first thing you do is take 15 minutes to re-read what you wrote, fix typos, correct grammar, and make edits. By the time you're done straightening up, you should be back in the flow of the story, a... (more) |
— | over 13 years ago |