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11-17-2005, 04:14 PM | #22 |
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*smites stubborn old keyboard*
A good thing I don't write novels then, isn't it? It'd be full of Dutchisms anyway...
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11-17-2005, 08:48 PM | #23 | |
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11-18-2005, 08:34 PM | #24 | |
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11-18-2005, 10:42 PM | #25 | |
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You must be very good at catching everything like that, because I read right over "punction" without noticing, and never would hadn't you pointed it out. You see, I do not read. I recognize words by sight, and if I miss a small letter or "recognize" a strange word with the letters in a different order than they're supposed to be, I might never realize my mistake. For example, some Martian places: For me, Chryse was Chyrse, Elysium was Elsyium, Cerberus Fossae was Cerebus Fossae, Nirgal Vallis was Nigral Vallis (actually, the character Nirgal from Green Mars was where I first began to "recognize" the name AND subsequently recognize it correctly, and it wasn't until after this distinction that I heard about Nirgal Vallis). A few others I've had trouble with: Bilbo was Biblo. Tsavong Lah the Yuuzhan Vong Warmaster was Tsavong Lah the Yuzzhan Vong Warmster.
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11-19-2005, 05:42 AM | #26 | |
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I'm thinking that's pretty good advice for when you want to write a book too.
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11-19-2005, 01:59 PM | #27 |
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Point taken
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11-19-2005, 04:16 PM | #28 |
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You mean people normally reread their posts before posting them?
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I can usually notice the gaping holes in the continuity accident that is my plot. I often re-read my posts and correct them if necessary, but this may be because I like hearing myself talk/write.
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But anyway, one major error, myself wanting to keep my science fiction "scienctifically correct," is the distance of the planet-encircling Stanford torus around GHI 81,027A7.1. Here, prior to learning that the amount of gravity created by centrifugal rotation had something to do with the speed of rotation, radius, and what is vaguely and confusingly described as "Angular Inertia," I automatically claimed that the torus-ring was 15,421 miles from the planet's core, or twice the distance from it that the planet surface was. Since the planet's surface rotation was around the same as Earth's (it was 97% the size of Earth, but had 24 hour days, so it rotated at about 1009 Miles per hour), the tangential velocity (rim speed) of the ring was double that. One major problem. I described this as creating one G, but instead, it was effectively microgravity, resulting in 0.02 G .
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11-20-2005, 05:17 PM | #32 | |
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11-20-2005, 07:37 PM | #33 |
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Speaking of writing, what great hero of the internet or film or whatever got the idea of using asterisks to describe action? *scratches head*
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12-02-2005, 08:39 PM | #34 |
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writing novels are pretty hard...damn novels * takes a lighter to the pages* only kidding...all that hard work i have been doing!! but i can be pretty frustrating at times..especially with writer's block!!!!
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12-05-2005, 09:10 PM | #35 |
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i'm half way through one novel and im having trouble getting the other going
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Well, good luck! I've got an eight chapter novel that adds up to a grand total of 24 pages thus far, and that's TNR Size 12 double-spaced!
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Like your fancy "College ruled" poses a threat. I say the lines are too big. But anyway, I know what you mean about actually typing them. I'm complaining about Chapter Eight: Death at Aldebaran, which was recently renamed Chapter Eight: Aldebaran Spaceport or something like that.
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