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very helpful
this has really helped me a lot. I looked at my own work and found the word "beautiful" about 970 times. Reading this piece has given me new ideas for improving my work. Thanks a lot.
Reminder
Thank you for your advice. Though some experienced writers I've spoken with , scoffed at my double checking your advice as elementary; I sincerely appreciate your patience and support.
I hope my maiden post on Literotica is well recieved.
Cordially,
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Thank You!
Thanks! I've been finding myself repeating several words in conversations and started searching through the thesaurus (of course) but I had totally neglected the synonym/antonym idea! Thanks to you and google I just added a syn/ant site to correlate with the dictionary and thesaurus sites! THANKS AGAIN!!
A good reminder
It's really hard to remember these sorts of things when you're focusing on just getting a story out. I remember hearing stories about the French novelist, Gustave Flaubert, and about how he took over ten years to write Madame Bovary, which is not a terriffically long novel, because he believed that there was a precise word that needed to be in each place in a sentence. He would labor for weeks over a page.
I don't think that everybody needs to be as fastidious as Flaubert- but your article is an excellent reminder that you can't just slop anything onto a page and call it a good story. So much of a good Literotica story is all about the ability to put the reader in the situation, and you can't do that with bland or uninteresting words.
It's Been Done...before
Author forgot a literature review here. Pick up Fanny Hill, any Henry Miller, or your favorite "fuck" books, discover what turns you on and stay with that vocabulary.
Find the words for characters, by listening to others
Well, this was...
... very useful! Thank you for the tips!
Nice!
Hi! I'm working on my first serious revision of Falling For The Family (a novella at 43,000+ words. You article has helped quite a bit!)
Thanks
Thanks very much Whispersecret,
To be a good writer for Lit. is really no different from having the right tools for the job. I don't mind that I have to relearn grammar and that
there are like a dozen other things I need to learn as well. Between understanding grammar, punctuation,the right words, spelling etc. in the
fullness of time I shall be able to write a good story and have it published.
Thanks so much for your articles.
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