Wednesday, February 9, 2011

[Enter Word of Choice]

The Inkers met last night.  We wrote for approximately 120 minutes and then we shared a little of our writing.  (There was also amazing food, as always, with Kirk winning the prize for best of show with AMAZING Raspberry Sweet Rolls.) 

During sharing time, the afore-mentioned winner, Sir-Kirk-A-Lot shared a paragraph.  In his paragraph there were two places he put brackets:

1)    [girl name] and [girl name]
2)    [gun] and [gun]

Later I was lamenting that I was still unsure how to describe my demons.  I received excellent advice: Use the brackets.

I'm wondering if brackets could replace yada-yada-yada.  "I went out with him to [   ] and we [    ]  and then we [    ].  Oh my you should have seen [    ]."

Which leads me to think of George Costanza which always puts a smile on my face.

Happy Wednesday!

8 comments:

  1. I feel so lonely without any [ description ] comments.

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  2. Let me fill in that bracket for you with "fabulous" and just say I love the brackets, but I'll have to be careful about overusing (is that a word?) them. I could see myself filling up most of a page with brackets.

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  3. Ah, Castanza. Vandalay Industries at its finest . . .

    The brackets are helpful for me, as I demonstrated last night. Helps for those times I don't want to look up a detail but would much rather keep up the pace of my writing. Nancy Allen actually tipped me off to it. Great idea, Nancy!

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  4. The sweet rolls were amazing!

    The yada yada is one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes. Where would we be without some Seinfeld to relate to.

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  5. I forgot to add my love for the raspberry rolls. Thanks for sharing Kirk!

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  6. My pleasure. I'll definitely be bringing those again! Thanks for all the other goodies, guys.

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  7. I LOVE brackets! They help me so much with the story writing process! Of course you could go crazy with them in which case your novel might look something like this:

    Xavier had amazing telepathic abilities.

    [Enter plot here]

    And they lived happily ever after. The End.

    :)

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  8. Love writers group, love the sweet rolls, and love the brackets. They are heinously underused in my writing. I have a feeling I'll need to use them before this WIP is finished.

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