What not to wear (1 Viewer)

[kami]

I found a link about things to not do when writing a story, its mainly for sci fi and stuff but its still pretty useful just scroll down through the intro


http://www.sfwa.org/writing/turkeycity.html

 

[_muse_]

excellent, thanks.

 

[jhakka]

"Said" Bookism
An artificial verb used to avoid the word "said." "Said" is one of the few invisible words in the English language and is almost impossible to overuse. It is much less distracting than "he retorted," "she inquired," "he ejaculated," and other oddities. The term "said-book" comes from certain pamphlets, containing hundreds of purple-prose synonyms for the word "said," which were sold to aspiring authors from tiny ads in American magazines of the pre-WWII era.

W00t! I love being right about that.