Dakota

@rose-colored-fancy

The words were in the common language, and thankfully, I understood them, despite the strong, clipped accent.

That’s exactly what I was talking about, so great example. 🙂 That’s how I like to describe accents. I guess what I’m needing now is more words to describe accents rather than the normal: rough, thick, gravely, twangy,…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

 I guess what I’m trying to say is that I use accents to help develop character voice, and thus I really only want some of the characters to be defined by a cultural accent.

I get what you’re trying to say, but I don’t know how much it would actually help you with character voice because your reader isn’t really hearing it. The on…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give them an accent, since they probably do have one, but if they get a POV, they can mention how all the others have accents to them. And people from different regions of the same place can always have regional accents.

I usually just describe accents like “They had a (region) accent.…

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@noah-cochran

I was in a hurry and I forgot to mention that “Gilded blood” will be ready to beta-read in late march/early april. The manuscript is 91k and the deadline is preferably end of april, though there’s some slack there.

It’s the second draft, I mainly need story and scene level critique. (Basically what I’ve been doing for TTD)

Will…[Read more]

Trope talk: Accents

@noah-cochran

I can’t have a conversation in that chaos. xD

*Glances around secretively* Oh, we’re whispering? XD Good idea though, but I think you got the wrong forum XD

However, one thing you might notice in my historical fiction is that I don’t mess with religion much. I’ll do it more in this series, but I don’t particularly want to turn th…

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@sparrowhawke –

I loved that poem very much! It does need some polishing up, as all our work does, but it also resounded with me deeply. I have a fear of people not liking me, so I oftentimes don’t say what I want to say because I’m worried something will go wrong and I’ll spoil a friendship. I’m always telling myself ‘one day I’ll be bold, one…[Read more]

@sir-leeds

“Boo Radley”–that was really good! I loved the imagery! I agree with Anne on a favorite line–that whole stanza was my favorite actually.

@emily-waldorf

I loved the idea of “watching the rain”. It seems to evoke an idea of patience and perseverance through a trial rather than “oh please help i don’t like this it hurts please save me…[Read more]

Hi @emily-waldorf , I’m thankful we can all continue this conversation, even amidst the strong opinions. I think your idea about the heart and soul of poetry would line up well with John Keats: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” (from the last lines of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”).

Now I don’t n…[Read more]

@sir-leeds and @anne-of-lothlorian

After reading my post above I don’t entirely agree with everything I said. You see, I think I have what could be called “sophomore syndrome” and “foot-in-mouth disease”: I have strong opinions that I don’t necessarily pause to think long about before I express them (strongly), and have a tendency to think I know…[Read more]

Anne, I really liked Midnight Thoughts. It was very dreamy and full of a pleasing sort of fancy; I like how you explored the different sorts of thoughts that cross your path, say, at midnight.

Cainon, I was so enthralled with the idea of your poem, Boo Radley! The picture of poems “spreading their wings” and doing without you and that of some…[Read more]

While we’re into sharing poems, here’s one of mine! (I’ll get back to your other posts, but it will take me a lot of time to type out the answers, and I don’t have a lot of that right now. 🙂

Watch the Rain

When life is dark with gloom,

With teardrops falling fast,

Splitting your heart with doom,

In darkness overcast,

Sit still and watch…[Read more]

@sir-leeds

Wow. Just… uh… wow… 😯😭

That poem was amazing. Astoundingly simple in execution and deep in concept. My favorite line was ‘baptize themselves into the church of publication’. This right here… this is my favorite kind of poetry, the kind that makes me tear up because it touched a place in my heart I didn’t know could be touched and r…[Read more]

Thanks for the compliments @anne-of-lothlorien !

And yes, it is in reference to “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Here it is. Hope you enjoy it (and that the forum formatting doesn’t mangle it too badly)!

Boo Radley

By Cainon Leeds

Some of my poems have adjusted well.
They can tie their own shoes and walk out the door
and down the streets of…[Read more]