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[Lauren Hynde]

Might be the overuse of ellipses...

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Might be the overuse of ellipses...

Take a couple commas and call us on Monday.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[minsue]

Your words must be with my words. Next time they want to go out, I'm going to insist upon a chaperon.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Might be the overuse of ellipses...

No such thing (ellipses are the besterestest things to ever happen to the literary world (and the internet too), yes, forums are much better for it).

 

[Lauren Hynde]

No such thing (ellipses are the besterestest things to ever happen to the literary world (and the internet too), yes, forums are much better for it).

Did you just parenthesise within a parenthesis?

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Did you just parenthesise within a parenthesis?

Yes, I do believe he did. And in front of the entire AH multitude, too.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Did you just parenthesise within a parenthesis?

I usually use brackets for the inner sentence, but we were talking about perenthesis, not brackets (or brackets would have indeed been used [and it would have been just a little less fun])

And yes, when i use smilies I replace my punctuation with them

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I usually use brackets for the inner sentence, but we were talking about perenthesis, not brackets (or brackets would have indeed been used [and it would have been just a little less fun])

And yes, when i use smilies I replace my punctuation with them

Brackets, parenthetical marks, punctuation replaced by smilies, and a known abuser of ellipsis. It must be that balmy New Jersey climate.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Lauren Hynde]

That's interesting [I usually follow the mathematical model (you know, the one used in equations) and use brackets on the outside, parentheses within], but we were talking about ellipses... (Not parentheses.)

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I sometimes replace punctuation with similes. It's considered very avant guard in some circles, although I prefer synecdoches.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I sometimes replace punctuation with similes. It's considered very avant guard in some circles, although I prefer synecdoches.

That's cheating, Lauren. You knew I'd have to look up synecdoches, didn't you?

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Who doesn't? I've used the word distraught twice today already.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

That's interesting [I usually follow the mathematical model (you know, the one used in equations) and use brackets on the outside, parentheses within], but we were talking about ellipses... (Not parentheses.)

It's a mental block. I see "ellipses" and I think "perenthesis" because perenthesis are elliptical. Funny, aint it?

 

[RonClarkeson]

Plase borrow my muse

So... the words have simply stopped.

stress
fatigue
overly tired
overly everything maybe

Please please borow my muse, she has gone stark raving mad.

I have been typing for ten days now and still she puts new ideas into my head, morning noon amd night.

Pm me for a few ideas.

I will give them to the lowest bidder!

 

[Lauren Hynde]

It's a mental block. I see "ellipses" and I think "perenthesis" because perenthesis are elliptical. Funny, aint it?

Very. I see parentheses and think ellipses because parentheses are a good procrastination tool.

 

[cantdog]

stress my ass

That's what you have to say, Lizzie: "Stress, my ass! Stress be damned!"

Then you stop facing a blank page. Change the approach, sit and plan, have a scene-to-scene idea of what needs doing. Or, if you usually do that, then face a blank page and dream it up.

Make a damn job out of it for a while, so it's something you just can't get away with not doing. Make a block of time for it and rivet yourself down for it. If the big picture doesn't come, fine down, write just one scene. If that's too big a picture, fine it down and write one motion, one act, one line of the dialogue. Describe one finger, one glance.

And eschew ellipses

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I will give them to the lowest bidder!

Give me ten bucks (per idea) and I'll listen. That's as low as I'm authorised to go by my clients.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

But if you follow the mathematical use of parentheses then you would have to start at the most inner set and work your way out...for instance.

A = B(C(D+E)C(D-E))(C-B))

 

[RonClarkeson]

All this procastination does not help Lizzy

Very. I see parentheses and think ellipses because parentheses are a good procrastination tool.

Please someone borrow my muse!

 

[Lauren Hynde]

A = B(C(D+E)C(D-E))(C-B))

Too many parentheses, not enough brackets, and you have more closing parentheses marks than you do opening ones. Back to the drawing board!

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Please someone borrow my muse!

I don't need a muse. I have thousands of ideas. They just don't like to come out of my head and onto the page.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Too many parentheses, not enough brackets, and you have more closing parentheses marks than you do opening ones. Back to the drawing board!

Ah you caught that...

A = X*(B*(C*(D+E)*(C*(D-E)))*(C-B))

There you go! And in computerized math language, such as Fortran or many others, you only use parentheses, brackets are used to define and unbounded matrix.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Too many parentheses, not enough brackets, and you have more closing parentheses marks than you do opening ones. Back to the drawing board!

Just send some to Ron in exchange for two muse ideas and a player to be named later.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Ah you caught that...

A = X*(B*(C*(D+E)*(C*(D-E)))*(C-B))

There you go! And in computerized math language, such as Fortran or many others, you only use parentheses, brackets are used to define and unbounded matrix.

Yeah, I was talking about when you do it by hand, as in high-school.