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A thing about dialogue is, usually you don't need attribution. The nature of the discussion and the characterization are enough to set the voices apart. In the event you need clarity or a booster to remind the reader who's involved, you can add supporting detail: describe stuff.
Observe some body language that's going on at the same time, and that grounds the speaker by association. Describe what they're peering at, that lends another dimension to their thoughts. Note what happens between thoughts, as they take a breath. There's so much to any moment.
The things characters choose to say, the words themselves are just one thing happening in that scene. If you focus on the value of the words themselves, you're stripping them of context. You don't need adverbs. You don't need many attributions. You need a scene. Emotional states.
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Even if JKR didn't out herself with her behavior or the themes in her work, I feel like I could intuit she was a bigot just from the way she writes dialogue.
That would take a while to explain, I fear. So I won't.
But I'm serious.
Kind of.
Even if JKR didn't out herself with her behavior or the themes in her work, I feel like I could intuit she was a bigot just from the way she writes dialogue.
That would take a while to explain, I fear. So I won't.
But I'm serious.
Kind of.
(Now that's what I call empirical semantics.)
@AmandeepJutla you know what i'm saying here, right
the sense of control; assertion of valence to indicate an absolute reading
the lack of demonstrable interiority or association amongst thoughts, words, actions, and exterior factors
the word is law, and i will define it
the sense of control; assertion of valence to indicate an absolute reading
the lack of demonstrable interiority or association amongst thoughts, words, actions, and exterior factors
the word is law, and i will define it
there is a lack of agency for the characters, the story, and the reader alike, trapping them in a jackbooted march of dictation
as for where the authoritarianism demonstrates an existential contempt that would indicate bigotry, well, like
it's kind of endemic, so hard to narrow
as for where the authoritarianism demonstrates an existential contempt that would indicate bigotry, well, like
it's kind of endemic, so hard to narrow
anyway, broad strokes
not in a place to be specific
but, like, it's there
not in a place to be specific
but, like, it's there
and god the fucking way she just appropriates things without thanks or reference and decides they're hers now and that she's so clever for thinking to employ them
there is no original art, right, but christ
there is no original art, right, but christ
