Fugitive someone running from the law.
Furtive someone who is sneaky or sly.
Can you think of a better idea? If so, please give your suggestion in the comment section of this blog. Way to remember an animal may FURrow into a hole to hide or is FURtive.
This is a presentation from the Indi novelist summit. Any inaccuracies is the fault of the note taker. The presenter was James Scott Bell.
Dialog is an extension of a character’s actions
Dialog always has an agenda.
Dialog is an extension of a character’s ability to act.
Don’t try to recreate real-life speech any um ah works
Dialog moves the story forward.
It can deliver story info.
It characterizations the person by how they speak
You don’t have to give all the backstory of a novel at the beginning. it can come gradually
Make sure the dialog is what two characters will actually say.
You don’t have to use a character’s name too much in the dialog.
Places to see dialog being used.
Each character will have a distinct way of talking influence by employment, past, experiences.
Some will create a voice journal to have the characters recorded on how they talk.
Orchestration in the past get created so you have a possibility of conflict.
Movie city slickers has three well-defined characters with dialog.
Transactional analyses and games people play presents a theory we tend to have a relationship influenced by roles we see ourselves as. ie adults ( authority figure) power to enforce rules and execute judgments. Adults are even minded and reasonable. The child is the most unreasonable. Does not know how to negotiate. What roles do the characters see themselves in? The cop is the authority figure ad the criminal might be the child trying to evade.
Googol screwball comedies from the 30,40 and 50x such as His girl Friday) and listen to their crisp dialog. Shows compressed and crisp and how to write it.
Look for movies directed by Preston and Sturgis
Common mistakes on the dialog.
Make sure the characters are distinct and need to make sure they each have an agenda.
Have characters interrupt each other or they might respond in an unpredictable manner during a dialog.
Try using silence in action short story hills like white elephants by Ernest Hemmingway a couple at a railroad station that has personal tension.
If a character is thinking the thoughts need to sound like the character as if they are speaking.
In cases of long blocks of dialog. You want to avoid long paragraphs. Readers want to see white space. Use interruptions in speech or actions that can be observed by the speaker. Find ways to break it up.
Breaking up paragraphs on a page is a good way to increase ease of reading
Interweave dialog with scene some will do dialog first and add descriptions later.
Some will edit the previous day’s work first and then continue writing
Some will copy a scene over to a new text and see how much you can cut to compress it and cut flab. Have an action replace the words. The word no could be cut out from “No. I don’t feel like going out.
Speech tags: ‘said’ are default setting
You can often cut out he said. Let an action tell you who the current point of view character is. Be careful of actions be careful of having a character do a false action such as scratch an eyebrow just to avoid saying said. Use the action as a substitute for variety on occasion. It can wear a reader out.
Practice dialog by creating a scene and just have the word exchange.
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These are notes from a finance class offered at the church. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.
– Leave a slush fund for clearing items.
– Track what we spend. If we get close we stop buying or switch from another budget.
– Put items as cash into envelopes for different budget items.
– Add mad money you can do anything with it. Can collect it and buy a movie
– Discount cards for loyalty cards. Or use coupons.
– As you make the budget, each marriage partner should sign the bottom so you commit to it. If we make changes we come back and we work the budget. Break it and it’s a form of financial infidelity.
– Elder Urdorf: Trust in God.
– Participate in a budget can mean later rewards. Delayed gratification.
– In the past early in marriage would take things back when they couldn’t afford it. And even now a child gets a gift and they ask you aren’t going to take this back.
– Let kids know your financial picture. Income and expenses.
– If kids get an allowance help them put money aside tithing, savings, fun, etc.
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Here are some notes from a church meeting. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.
– Who to worship: Moses 1:15 worship God. Only him we shall serve. When we worship God it shows our love.
– Worship recreates who we are.
– One person ensures to read a proverb a day to help workshop.
– Exudes 20:1-4. We should worship God. Anything else we worship over him is an idol.
– Proverbs 29:18
– True worship is not restricted to one day of the week.
– Sunday is the day we prime the pump for the rest of the week.
– Sometimes determine the purpose you do something. That can let you know if your activity is a good goal.
– Confidence and improve a task to excellence and build others. Pride is where you shoot others down.
– Using our talent is a type of worship.
– Idols that separate us from God are never satisfactory.
– How do we worship: Obedience, Service
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I got some very good advice from a booklet offered by ProWritingAid. It is software that helps writers improve their text. This suggestion could help me in my efforts to improve my spelling. Quote:
In today’s world of spellcheckers, it’s easy to go on the misspelling words forever as you just correct them with your mouse. We recommend spending a bit of time upfront for improving your selling to save time in the future. Every time you misspell a word, delete the whole world and re-type it again, paying attention to the spelling.
This sounds like very good advice. I’m starting to do this, sometimes. I need to do it consistently.
Do you have any tricks that you use for spelling?
This is a continuation of my notes about self-editing, offered by by Talsa Sainz.
Narration: don’t break character. That includes the narrator. They are a narrator.
Voice: passive: the pie was eaten by the man.
The man ate the pie
The jar is filled with sand.
Sand filled the jar.
Narration: passive voice
The narration was/were
Beware of the ING
The guard was swinging (no was plus with ing) the guard
The guard swung his sword.
Tense: present simple, past single, future, past
Narration: point of view. Keep it consistent.
Function: sticky sentences: The more you say the less they remember.
Substances: prepositions: in on of
Conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or yet, so
Articles: the, an, a
Happens when there are a lot of prepositions in a row.
Dialog: beats. Characters actions between bits of dialog.
You cannot see that boy anymore” her father slammed his hand on the table.
Dialog: Said, asked, replied, yelled whispered.
Use said as much as possible.
Words that can be used as verbs: exclaimed, divulged, disclosed.
Dialog names: don’t have your characters; overuse each other’s name in the dialog.
It shows that you don’t trust the reader.
Dialog: what to look for
Quotation marks
Said
All dialog tags
Check for beats
If the dialog does not bring the story forward delete it
Text analysis: Google: text analyses
Word count
Most common words
Average sentence length,
Average word length
Simplify of language
How to color the words:
CTR F drop down,
Select advance find.
Put in Word in replace.
Go to
Click on the whole word only.
Format
Font >highlight in red.
And replace all.
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These are notes from a finance class offered at church. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.
– The greatest sample of obedient is through the Savior and the atonement. Living the perfect life,
– Christ says, follow thou me.
– How are repentance and obedience related to self-reliance> if you gone have a plan you plan to fail. Obedience is a way to keep yourself accountable.
– Repentance is about making a change in our lives.
– Blessings of obedience > we can ask for Gods help because we’ve done our part.
– When you obey the law of tithe we are blessed.
– Dec 130:20-21
– Joshua 3:5
– Tithes first because everything we have is the Lord’s
– In old testaments refers to the first fruits of the harvest.
– Paying tithes is a test of your priorities.
– First, pay your tithe then put a little aside for your future yourself.
– 10% of our increase, which means income.
– A widow gives her last meal to Prophet Elijah and her oil and grain are replenished for her faith.
– The law of the fast: is fasting for two meals
– Giving a generous fast offering to the needy.
– Be generous and the lord will be generous to you.
– You can never out give God
– One bishop gave as much fast offering as he could and he was very successful.
– One bishop said that double your fast offering and you’ll never go without.
– One elderly gentleman once said, “if you are not self-reliant who else can you rely on?
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Here are some notes from church. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.
– We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression. We believe that through the [A]tonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
– The right to direct your life is one of God’s greatest gifts to you. You are not free to choose the consequences.
– We have free agency to live and return back to live with God in eternity.
– Satan wanted to force man to return back to God.
– Christ volunteered to be sacrificed and did the atonement to aid us in returning back to God.
– Eons ago there was a grand council held. God presented the opportunity to come to Earth and be like him or chose to not keep his commandments. We would be free to choose. This gift is called agency the power to choose.
– One purpose on earth to prove our faithfulness.
– Ultimately we will receive the kingdom we work for.
– Calvin college, former evangelist, says that all man inherit Adam’s sin.
– Only the Savior can overcome death and sin.
– Alms 7:11
– Just like the Israelites was bitten by a serpent to look at the image of the serpent and live so we can look to Christ and live.
– A father and his family joined the church and it influenced 100 other people through his children’s mission etc.
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