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#1 2023-01-21 21:46:06
- Limnophile
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Advice for Authors - Huge-Word-Itis
Less than one in a thousand people are highly educated sociolinguistic scholars with lexicography fetishes. If you are one, you're right to be proud.
But if you want to entertain the rest of us, please avoid using more than a dozen 15-letter words per sentence. With a mouse in one hand and a dictionary in the other, it's terribly difficult to masturbate.
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#2 2023-01-22 10:30:36
- Eric Storm
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Re: Advice for Authors - Huge-Word-Itis
Perhaps you should have paid attention in school, then.
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#3 2023-01-22 11:26:59
- CreepyUnclePete
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Re: Advice for Authors - Huge-Word-Itis
... but you can't deny it's the primary reason most people visit the site ...
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#4 2023-01-22 18:51:52
- Eric Storm
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Re: Advice for Authors - Huge-Word-Itis
I'm not too certain of that, truthfully. I get an awful lot of people who tell me they don't even read the sex scenes in my stories. They skip over them to get back to the actual story. *shrugs*
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#5 2023-11-27 19:56:33
- Dadrepus
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Re: Advice for Authors - Huge-Word-Itis
Just started to read this section. Kinda caught up on most of the authors here. I have noticed I have also stared to gloss over repetitive sex scenes as well. While I do enjoy a good sex scene, I find the story development more and more appealing along with the character development and growth. An excellent example being your Woodward Academy Series. It would have been almost as good without the sex as it was a compelling story line and I loved the length. I think the best stories are ones that tell a story where the sex is a natural extension to enhance the basic plot.
Eric, don't "shrug" take it a a compliment that your writing is so compelling that the reader doesn't necessaraly need the sex to feel entertained.
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#6 2023-11-27 21:55:39
- Eric Storm
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Re: Advice for Authors - Huge-Word-Itis
Dadrepus wrote:
Eric, don't "shrug" take it a a compliment that your writing is so compelling that the reader doesn't necessaraly need the sex to feel entertained.
I understand your point, but the fact is, it is both compliment and insult at the same time. There is a lot of energy that goes into the sex scenes, especially in trying to make them not repetitive. To have all that effort just dismissed as not worth reading doesn't necessarily feel all that good. Sure, it's nice that the "meat" of the story is compelling and enjoyable, but the side dishes require work, too.
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