1. 13:45 16th Dec 2011

    Notes: 43

    Reblogged from katiecoyle

    Tags: writing

    be cool, soda pop: Unfortunate Trends in My MFA Manuscript; Or, Why I've Spent the Last Week Cringing

    katiecoyle:

    • Setting scenes on Halloween to indicate that something spoooOOOOoooky may be happening.
    • Spelling the word “gray” with an “e” sometimes, but not all the time.
    • Describing silence as “deafening.”
    • Describing children as “bent forward by the weight of their backpacks.”
    • Puns.
    • Using blonde hair as shorthand for attractiveness and brown hair as shorthand for mousiness.
    • Ending a story with someone falling or someone flying (this literally happens in all the stories I have revised so far oh my god what is the matter with me).

    These things are very difficult to avoid sometimes. In the last month, I have talked myself away from #1 and gone ahead with #6.

     
    1. democracyoftouch reblogged this from katiecoyle and added:
      These things are very difficult...avoid sometimes. In
    2. ecantwell said: I never know how to spell “gray.”
    3. countingbackwards said: Keep working. You’ll get there!
    4. dykings said: I am the world’s biggest fan of grey-with-an-e
    5. unbornwhiskey said: THESE TEN STORIESSSSSSSSSSSSSS-ZAH!
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