^I remember Lord of the Flies being a little like that. I remember there was just these huge blocks of dialogue with nothing in between. There was so many characters so it was impossible to figure out who was saying what.
Actually has anyone read Wonder by RJ Palacio? For some reason this was kinda making me think of this one section of the book. It's a multiple perspective book, and one of the perspectives had no punctuation at all (except periods, I think)
imagine it if you will several chapters that just read like this. no capitals everything is in lowercase for some reason. the only punctuation you have is periods like no commas and not even any quotation marks to indicate when people were talking. i often had to reread certain bits to figure out what was and wasn't dialogue. we don't even get an explanation for it but this guy is like 16 i think and had worse grammar than the 10 year old main character. to make things even more frustrating i found that this characters perspective was sort of unnecessary and the awful grammar just made it super grating to read.
Yeah if we could not have books with weird/confusing formatting that would be great.
Yeah I think that Wonder was formatted unnecessarily confusing. Like I think it was a cool way to write, but really weird and it could've gone without
Does anyone else have a problem reading books when the pages are actually white?
You mean instead of yellowish? Yeah
Especially in bright sunlight.
I mean, it’s pretty okay if it’s like manga and the white is kinda dull
Yeah I think that Wonder was formatted unnecessarily confusing. Like I think it was a cool way to write, but really weird and it could've gone without
Yeah. I couldn't read it because of the formatting. I also couldn't read a book from one of my favorite authors because there were NO QUOTATION MARKS! AT ALL!
In my book, certain characters use specific fonts, symbols, or pronouns in their dialogue to help readers better understand how they speak. For example, some of my characters wear masks that alter the tone of their voice, so I use the fonts "Spectral" and "Abel" whenever they speak to indicate this. One character used the "tilde" or "~" symbol at the end of every sentence because of the way he accentuated the last syllable (Sadly, I removed him from later drafts).
I did it mostly for fun, but it ended up saving me from thousands of repetitive sentences like "He said" or "She yelled".
That is an interesting concept.
I hate things like this…
Aro laughed, "Ha ha ha." He giggled.
That's from an actual book.
Those kind of things make me much more confident in my own writing.
Aro laughed, "Ha ha ha." He giggled.
^^^ When I attempt to role play but don’t know how to respond
I hate things like this…
Aro laughed, "Ha ha ha." He giggled.
That's from an actual book.
Stephanie Meyer. L.O.L. Cries in the distance.
if u ever wanna feel better about your writing just go through the fifty shades books
My dad was watching me play skyrim and we discovered the 50 shades of gray smut of skyrim…… Only read the first few lines.
It is literally called The Lusty Argonian Maid I opened it as a joke.
Oh my god! Yes!!!! They’re labeled as if there are multiple volumes, but much to my disappointment, there’s only the one… I found a bookshelf with like 20-something copies of The Lusty Argonian Maid once.
I looked it up and there are two volumes. Which apparently are both highly suggestive.
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