"She opened the door and spotted some C-beams near the Tannhauser gate on the wall. The moment would be lost later as she cried in the rain. It was time to die now..." Brilliant, how do I keep churning out these bangers.
I came up with a phrase for one of my stories a long time ago, wrote it down, rediscovered it later, and spent a considerable amount of time Googling it just to make sure no one else had used it already.
They stand out like a sore thumb don’t they? My dear Mum, who was an English teacher in her early years, would sigh and groan as she read Facebook posts, from relatives and friends, that sported poor grammar, spelling etc. 🤣
I would say their some of my favourite memories of her 😁
Yeah I had to leave a little something for Mum to roll her eyes at but I suppose I could of thought of something else. (FTR that wasn’t easy to type. My phone was determined to throw its “could‘ve” then “could have” at me. So maybe Mum was driving my autocorrect at the time. 🥹
In response to some aphorism I posted, somebody replied "this is great, did you come up with it?". I replied, "I'm probably not the first, but I think I arrived at it independently".
Worst is when you think you have a banger but nothing happens, but then the throw away line two paragraphs down is quote and highlighted and you're just there like...
Writing it that way would mean that makes it funnier for my author friends. What I wrote is that it made it funnier for me. Both are true, but I said what I meant to say, so no, it doesn't "need" one 😛
Tbf this is absolutely happen on accident. I've had times where I've listened to an audiobook while writing and the when reading through it realizing I picked up certain words and phrasing from book. Not on purpose just subconsciously.
McCartney worried about the melody to Yesterday: "For about a month I went round to people in the music business and asked them whether they had ever heard it before. Eventually it became like handing something in to the police. I thought if no one claimed it after a few weeks then I could have it."
In my writing, if I find a particularly well written sentence or paragraph, I just assume it has worked its way into my writing from elsewhere. Best move is to just delete it and start over.
I have no lack of confidence about the originality of my work – I could not, for any considerable period, wear one face to myself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. I draw from my memories –
memories that warm me up from the inside. But they also tear me apart - and sometime the sharing of them - in writing - is a nightmare from which I endlessly find myself trying to awake.
I have written whole papers, filed it away on my computer, then found it again years later and wonder "Did I write that or did I copy and paste it to Word as research?" 😬
AI graded my writing ability very highly. I find that to be a huge lose. (I do not like that saying, but it fits somehow)
Now I just think I'm good at talking to robots, or its simply lying.
My lips are sealed. :x — I can’t tell if it’s meant to be humorous and thus done on purpose though? Either way.. my mind is wiped now and I don’t see anything worth pointing out. (Is that good? Did I pass?)
Yes, that was my immediate thought as well. But you never know, so I erred on the side of caution. And no one likes a needlessly pedantic bitch. Well, it wasn’t needless, but still. I’m feeling the holiday spirit, so just this one time I won’t be a spelling Scrooge.
P.S. - The “sod that” made me smile. My mom is a Liverpudlian (one who was blessed to sound completely coherent) and she often says that. My cousins, on the other hand, need subtitles when they speak for this Canadian lady to understand. Haha.
I would normally agree with you, but for all we know, maybe English isn’t their first language? I don’t know, I’m trying to be kind, even with this devil/troll on my shoulder. Haha. If this were a regular ol’ day in March, I’d be right on it and showing no mercy. Haha. Thank you, and Happy Christmas
Jokes aside, I've always been absolutely HORRIBLE at understanding the vocabulary related to grammar. I just CANNOT understand it or commit it to memory. I just "know" what's right or wrong, but I wouldn't be able to describe it if my life depended on it. Gerund? NO FUCKING CLUE.
I learned this in a writing course: "kill your darlings". It's just a very dramatic way of saying that if you write a sentence you are especially proud of, it deserves a hard second look. I've been an editor now for a few decades and have seen many such sentences...
That you need to be willing to sacrifice a beautifully-written section if it doesn't fit with the larger body of work. You can save it for potential later use, but remove it from this project for the overall benefit of the larger work.
Oh, bless you for signaling it. It's day one for me here and I was already beginning to despair, the ghosts of every English teacher I ever had howling in my skull with almost every new posting. I mutter in reply, "Do I know what they mean? I do, so calm down, Mrs. Lunt."
Typo noted but I certainly agree. Back before there was internet, there was a line so brilliant, I can't believe I thought of it. The minute Google was a possibility, I did and...I still can't believe it's mine LOL.
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Your.
I would say their some of my favourite memories of her 😁
My writing often feels like that.
“… (quote) …”
-me, I think
Hmm. Wait, no.
Don't worry, it's plagiarism
Your = possession
"You look like Waldo searching for himself in his own book."😉
It’s too good. I’m not creative enough for it. Very suspicious.
https://www.shortlist.com/news/the-40-most-powerful-literary-quotes
your possessive
Now I just think I'm good at talking to robots, or its simply lying.
I feel that constantly!
Okay- this was definitely funnier in my head.