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Writing Terms #162615 10/14/09 06:07 AM
Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,644 North Carolina, USA ChiefPam OP Pulitzer
OP ChiefPam Pulitzer Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,644 North Carolina, USA	I ran across this today... Turkey City Lexicon . The page details lots of the terms that SF writers critique each other in. If you've ever wanted to know what a "said-bookism" is, or what an "idiot plot" looked like, or what makes a story into a "steam-grommet factory"... well, this is your link. I found it very funny. One quote: Quote * Roget’s Disease The ludicrous overuse of far-fetched adjectives, piled into a festering, fungal, tenebrous, troglodytic, ichorous, leprous, synonymic heap. (Attr. John W. Campbell) Warning, there's a tiny bit of rough language in there towards the end (basically one use of the F word) (Just skip reading about "AM/FM"). PJ "You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed. He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement." "You can say that again," she told him. "I have a...." "Oh, shut up." --Stardust, Caroline K

Re: Writing Terms #162616 10/14/09 06:40 AM
Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 9,362 Scotland LabRat Boards Chief Administrator Emeritus Nobel Peace Prize Winner
LabRat Boards Chief Administrator Emeritus Nobel Peace Prize Winner Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 9,362 Scotland	LabRat Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly. Aramis: Yes, sorry. Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal. The Musketeers

Re: Writing Terms #162617 10/14/09 07:27 AM
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 2,989 Likes: 11 Florida Queen of the Capes Pulitzer
Queen of the Capes Pulitzer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 2,989 Likes: 11 Florida	Cool! I gotta show this to my Dad. In the meantime, it reminds me of TVTropes ~•~

Re: Writing Terms #162618 10/14/09 09:19 AM
Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 9,362 Scotland LabRat Boards Chief Administrator Emeritus Nobel Peace Prize Winner
LabRat Boards Chief Administrator Emeritus Nobel Peace Prize Winner Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 9,362 Scotland	Mary, that website is completely fascinating. I've already spent over an hour trawling through just the British TV section. This could get addictive. :rolleyes: LabRat Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly. Aramis: Yes, sorry. Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal. The Musketeers

Re: Writing Terms #162619 10/14/09 09:54 AM
Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,764 Southwest MO C carolm Pulitzer
carolm Pulitzer C Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,764 Southwest MO	Labby - what do you think Queenie does instead of writing? My articles Debt Free Blog: Normal is BROKE! Be Weird! - Under Construction

Re: Writing Terms #162620 10/14/09 11:30 AM
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 2,989 Likes: 11 Florida Queen of the Capes Pulitzer
Queen of the Capes Pulitzer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 2,989 Likes: 11 Florida	Swats at Carol :p BTW, Labby, I'm so sorry. I forgot to warn you: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife ~•~

Re: Writing Terms #162621 10/14/09 04:27 PM
Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,823 IolantheAlias Pulitzer
IolantheAlias Pulitzer Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,823	Tremendously entertaining! I got into the "literary tropes" section and spent a good fifteen minutes laughing about Unobtainium, Hand-Waving, Ass Pulls, and Applied Phlebotinum. Unfortunately, I fear I've used all of these in my fics.

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