. . . says "less dialogue, more exposition and description." Then they all try to lessen the sting by telling me how marvelous my dialogue is: to hear them talk, you'd think the angels write dialogue like mine. It's so authentic. It crackles. It's the way people talk. They practically have orgasms when they hear my dialogue.

"Actually," I want to point out, "all my characters sound like me, and if I ever have to write about people who aren't smart-ass psuedo-intellctuals, I'll be in deep shit."

I say nothing. I'll add some description to the chapter, and it won't hurt me a bit.

Onward.

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1 "psuedo-intellctuals" This is great! By using simple typos you reinforce and amplify the jab towards the very group you're jabbing. Just brilliant. That or your copy editor is out on another break...

Posted by: littlemrmahatma at January 07, 2005 02:59 PM (BZ0tI)

2 Oh, yes. Above and beyond that, I can spell "Attila."

Posted by: Attila Girl at January 07, 2005 04:24 PM (8TapF)

3 Pfui. If dialogue works for you, go with it. As a side thought - I wonder how many Munuvians are writers? Maybe we could start a MuNu writers' group?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 08, 2005 02:20 AM (+S1Ft)

4 Hm. 1) That might be interesting: that way I could polish stuff that's been critiqued by my meat world WG, and see what you all think of it; 2) I've also been meaning to ask you about bulletin boards, and how hard it would be to set one up for my flesh-and-blood WG: one of our members is taking a class right now, so she can't be there with us on Thursdays. I thought you might know what would be required for my So CA writing teacher to set up at least one forum (for us) and maybe 2-3 (for her other group, and for the class she sometimes teaches).

Posted by: Attila Girl at January 08, 2005 09:52 AM (8TapF)

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