My new side blog, @taniiswriting, is now up and running.
It will be dedicated to writing, fanfiction, et cetera.
Enjoy!
a BOOK you say?? from a LIBRARY???????????????????????
“Nancy Drew Signature Theme” - Games 2-15
(Every member of the Clue Crew ought to have this on their blog at some point :))
somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.
and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.
I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me
We often eat pie at work...for morale.
"As a treat" implies a special occasion, a temporary state. "For morale" makes the joy essential, because you have to have good morale to keep going.
I’d really love if feminists would stop pretending that all women are afraid of men
Or that we have to be afraid of men.
This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.
I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.
You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.
I just had a debate with myself over using the word mezzanine, wondering if I should describe it instead. Ultimately I decided the character would call it a mezzanine, and therefore readers could look up a new word if they didn't know.
It's how I learned words like myriad as a seven year old reading Lord of the Rings for the first time, why would I steal that experiance from someone else by simplifying language?
I don't know about y'all, but books are how i know my vocabulary in the first place
my favorite thing relevant to this is when a dumb character uses regional or obscure words completely casually, but i have to look them up. To me it's a big weird word, but to the silly town drunk in a story what else are you supposed to call that thing??
anyway, read outside your culture as well, even if it's just the state/city/country next door that you've never been to. you will expand your vocabulary substantially.
and like ... having different characters speak differently is good. It means they have unique voices. Characters with different backgrounds and life experiences will speak and behave differently - if they don't, you're not doing a good job as a writer.
And yes, you should work to make your writing accessible, but that doesn't mean making it too simple.
You ever just look at something you wrote and are trying to decide if it's genius or terrible
Every time.
Some cool facts about TRT :D
- Wickford Castle is based on the real-life Manresa Castle in Washington. The HER crew visited the castle while developing the game, and it inspired some of the architecture in TRT and MHM.
- The magazine that Lisa is reading features Mattie Jensen from STFD. The same magazine can be seen on Abby’s desk in MHM.
- TRT was voted one of the top three most popular games in an official HER poll. The other two fan favorites were CUR and SHA.
- The one French phrase in the stained glass that went untranslated, La vérité est toujours l'idée de tout le monde, means “The truth is always everybody’s idea.”
