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Posted by: Zyngaru
« on: November 04, 2023, 09:35:40 pm »

Quote from: Skip Trace on August 20, 2023, 10:24:29 am
Freudian Typo - when you're describing a paddling and mean to use "he" for the boy being spanked but write "I" instead.


I know I do this a lot, which is why I try to always write in first person, present tense.  I know I am the main character, so why not just write the story as if I am.  I have a bad problem of switching tenses during a story anyway, so staying in first person helps some with that tendency.

The absolute hardest thing for me is to be three or four characters in my story at the same time, while attempting to show each of their emotions and thoughts, while remaining in one tense.  I's and He's get all confused then.

As for it being a Freudian Slip, when I mean to write he, as the character, but accidentally seeing myself in that position instead of the character use I, it does happen.  I mean, how can it not?
Posted by: DMackenzie:(
« on: November 04, 2023, 07:09:14 am »

Certainly me this morning, getting 2k words into the next chapter of 'Daniel' before realizing more than half the time I was slipping an extra 'le' onto the end of his name. Thank goodness for Ctrl+F.
Posted by: Zyngaru
« on: August 20, 2023, 09:37:49 pm »

Quote from: David M. Katz on August 20, 2023, 02:33:02 pm
Don't we all live through our characters?

I know I do.
Posted by: afinch
« on: August 20, 2023, 03:28:18 pm »

Don't know anything about the stars, but I can't wait to read your story.  Some of us who just read stories live through those characters too.  I know I do.
Posted by: David M. Katz
« on: August 20, 2023, 02:33:02 pm »

Don't we all live through our characters?
Posted by: Skip Trace
« on: August 20, 2023, 10:24:29 am »

Freudian Typo - when you're describing a paddling and mean to use "he" for the boy being spanked but write "I" instead.

Yep, that just happened, and I had to smile when I realized what I had done. Following up on the recent "stars" discussion, approval is nice but I'm sure a lot of us -- most of us? -- are motivated more by the chance to create a fictional world that we would like to have lived in. That might be particularly true for WHASS writers like me.

I'm finally wrapping up the third installment of my "Synchronicity" series -- not by popular demand (ugh, those stars again!), but because I planned a five-part series and I'd like to finish it. Stay tuned for "Smoke," coming soon to an archive near you.