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So, I was having a chat with my good friend
danchekker (who is now on DreamWidth, guys! You should all go friend her up!), and we started to talk about how we each always write "the same story."
So, I thought it be awesome if people turned a critical eye to their own writing, and in as humorous a way as possible, described their most overused tropes. Here are mine!
One person listens to another person tell a two-fold story about the past: a happy opening, with a shocking turn that hints at the innate unfairness and violence of the world. The speaker always delivers this speech while talking in a faraway voice and while not making eye contact. At a later point, this story is either literally or metaphorically important to events that transpire.
APPARENTLY THIS IS WHAT I THINK MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS ARE
BASICALLY, I WRITE LIKE LIGHTNING SPEAKS
ALL OF MY CONVERSATIONS ARE BETWEEN LIGHTNING AND HOPE, AND LIGHTNING IS SAYING "Lightning can't protect, it can only destroy."
FFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGSSSSSSSSS
Furthermore, all of my characters are constantly struggling with self-destructive tendencies ("aren't we all?", I justify to myself), and ALSO my most dramatic deaths have the dying cough up blood.
Lastly, I'm finding it a little difficult to find FF characters' voices in longer dialogues. Cause, uh, in the game they really don't talk in more than a few sentences at a time, nor do they have meaningful discussions about feelings that don't descend into platitudes. THIS IS WEIRD
And how that I've said all this, I can't unsee it. aaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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So, I thought it be awesome if people turned a critical eye to their own writing, and in as humorous a way as possible, described their most overused tropes. Here are mine!
One person listens to another person tell a two-fold story about the past: a happy opening, with a shocking turn that hints at the innate unfairness and violence of the world. The speaker always delivers this speech while talking in a faraway voice and while not making eye contact. At a later point, this story is either literally or metaphorically important to events that transpire.
APPARENTLY THIS IS WHAT I THINK MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS ARE
BASICALLY, I WRITE LIKE LIGHTNING SPEAKS
ALL OF MY CONVERSATIONS ARE BETWEEN LIGHTNING AND HOPE, AND LIGHTNING IS SAYING "Lightning can't protect, it can only destroy."
FFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGSSSSSSSSS
Furthermore, all of my characters are constantly struggling with self-destructive tendencies ("aren't we all?", I justify to myself), and ALSO my most dramatic deaths have the dying cough up blood.
Lastly, I'm finding it a little difficult to find FF characters' voices in longer dialogues. Cause, uh, in the game they really don't talk in more than a few sentences at a time, nor do they have meaningful discussions about feelings that don't descend into platitudes. THIS IS WEIRD
And how that I've said all this, I can't unsee it. aaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Date: 2011-08-02 12:43 am (UTC)But, yeah, same difference.
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Date: 2011-08-02 12:48 am (UTC)I have too much variation, I guess. I tried to be vague enough to capture everything.
Maybe... people live lives and stuff happens and they're unhappy but they try and sometimes give up and there are other people around them who notice these things and sometimes they allow these people in. Sometimes they don't. And it goes on. Because life is just a thing and sometimes it rocks and sometimes it sucks, and sometimes you rage and sometimes you cry and sometimes you enjoy and it's all part of everything.
I think at this point, I may as well say: stuff happens and life occurs.
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Date: 2011-08-02 12:50 am (UTC)I have a guess for the murderer, its MAKO_LIES, WITH A BLUDGEON, ON DREAMWIDTH
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Date: 2011-08-02 12:55 am (UTC)MAYBE MY SCENE IS KICKASS WOMEN BEING KICKASS WHILE EVERYONE AROUND THEM IS LIKE WOAH LET'S HELP. BUT THAT DOESN'T EXPLAIN MY SLASH. OR WHEN THE WOMEN FALL APART. OR WHEN HOPE IS THE NARRATOR. OR EVERY OTHER STORY I'VE WRITTEN THAT'S NOT ABOUT. WHICH IS A LOT.
I AM A FAILURE.
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Date: 2011-08-02 12:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-02 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-02 01:01 am (UTC)I'M ONLY TRYING TO HELP YOU BE A BETTER PERSON CAN'T YOU SEE
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Date: 2011-08-02 01:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-02 01:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-02 01:09 am (UTC)And I totally plan on watching Baccano now.
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Date: 2011-08-02 01:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-02 12:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-02 01:00 am (UTC)(But I'm still trying to find that scene I write all the time. Because I'm still struggling to come up with anything. XD)
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Date: 2011-08-02 01:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-02 01:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-02 01:10 am (UTC)Also: unrequited feelings.
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Date: 2011-08-02 01:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-02 01:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-02 01:14 am (UTC)And Lightning has the emotional capacity of a teaspoon and this hurts Hope's feeeeliiings
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Date: 2011-08-02 01:15 am (UTC)