Quick Fire Questions (A Place to Ask and Answer)

[David Evil Overlord]

He only catches her in costume sans mask after his video faux pas.

The chatting has already been done.*

*All writing subject to change without notice whenever better ideas are hammered into my head by the Muse.

 

[hopewrites]

so her Mild Mannered Alter Ego is not intimidating???

 

[David Evil Overlord]

No. She's the girl next door (literally), and he's known her for years. And just when things get complicated* between them, things get a little bit more complicated.**

* "Just friends" becomes something just a little more romantic.

** She discovers her super powers. And then he discovers her super powers.

 

[hopewrites]

sounds like fun. let me know how you get on with it.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

I will.

P.S. The first 537 words are in the critique section. Although much has been rewritten since that was posted, thanks to so many good suggestions.

 

[hopewrites]

I'm full of.... something. Glad it was helpful.

 

[Mouse]

Thank you, fainters, for your answers.

By the way, Mouse: is this a serious question or are you practicing swooning.

Pfft. I only need to look at a picture of Ben Barnes and it makes me come over all peculiar.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

Thank you, fainters, for your answers.



Pfft. I only need to look at a picture of Ben Barnes and it makes me come over all peculiar.

Perhaps you should meet him in real life. Purely for research purposes, of course. Then you could write about fainting from the perspective of one who has been there and done that...

 

[Mouse]

I don't think I'd want to meet him in real life. I think I'd make an idiot of myself! I met Billy Boyd (LotR) at a con once and, although I don't even fancy him, nearly had a fit of the vapours then! Dropped everything on the floor in front of him, then sort of mumbled and stared a lot.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

I don't think I'd want to meet him in real life. I think I'd make an idiot of myself! I met Billy Boyd (LotR) at a con once and, although I don't even fancy him, nearly had a fit of the vapours then! Dropped everything on the floor in front of him, then sort of mumbled and stared a lot.

I'll remember that if I ever read anything you write about a girl dropping everything on the floor in front of a boy, and then mumbling and staring a lot. Us writers are always advised to "write what you know".

 

[Mouse]

Oh aye, started a thread on 'write what you know!' I think there's a lot of 'me' in everything I write. Kinda scary.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Hee, I have what's called face blindness and I don't recognise anyone out of context. I used to work in quite a well known castle (well, by Irish standards....), and most people travelling up the antrim coast road to the Giant's causeway stopped there. People I didn't recognise; Paul McGann (very embarrassing, he was very very famous at the time and I told his kids if they didn't get off the cannons, I'd chuck them out....), Paul Rankin, even with the beard, james Galway, about 4 of the cast from home and away, including one of the good looking ones... it happened every month or two. In the end the rest of the staff started telling me in advance, it was getting soooo embarresssing.

 

[Mouse]

Hee, I have what's called face blindness and I don't recognise anyone out of context. I used to work in quite a well known castle (well, by Irish standards....), and most people travelling up the antrim coast road to the Giant's causeway stopped there. People I didn't recognise; Paul McGann (very embarrassing, he was very very famous at the time and I told his kids if they didn't get off the cannons, I'd chuck them out....), Paul Rankin, even with the beard, james Galway, about 4 of the cast from home and away, including one of the good looking ones... it happened every month or two. In the end the rest of the staff started telling me in advance, it was getting soooo embarresssing.

I'm completely terrible with faces too though. I'll wave at people I think I know and I don't know them at all. I don't recognise people I do know, I'll have people speak to me and I have no idea who they are. When I first meet people, sometimes it takes me ages to tell them apart, especially if they have similar hair or something!

 

[David Evil Overlord]

I'm completely terrible with faces too though. I'll wave at people I think I know and I don't know them at all. I don't recognise people I do know, I'll have people speak to me and I have no idea who they are. When I first meet people, sometimes it takes me ages to tell them apart, especially if they have similar hair or something!

You are going to have so much fun when cloning takes off.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

I have a lot of conversations like this.

Oh hi! How's the family? please mention a name; any name. Work? how's it going? please a bone of some sort. Still living in the same place? I have no idea who you are; but you seem very nice. byyee.

 

[Mouse]

Heh heh! Yeah I get that. Do I even know this person?!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

It took me a year to mend relations with the school lollipop lady after I didn't say hello on the larne-stranraer boat, and some seriously high level end of term gifts... yes, we give the lollipop lady, isn't that mad? At christmas, cars have to come and collect the gifts, there are so many...

 

[David Evil Overlord]

It took me a year to mend relations with the school lollipop lady after I didn't say hello on the larne-stranraer boat, and some seriously high level end of term gifts... yes, we give the lollipop lady, isn't that mad? At christmas, cars have to come and collect the gifts, there are so many...

Of course you give to the lollipop lady. You read phyrebrat's story in the 75 word challenge.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

I read somewhere that it didn't matter how you show numbers, numerically or written out, provided you're consistent. Then I find this passage in the WIP:

I have 8000 people here, another 25000 army personnel who come and go, and 16 psycher’s who can do mind sweeps. We swept 200 and found 3 agents. You do the maths.”



Does that jar? Would it be better written out? or very long winded?

 

[Mouse]

I always write numbers as words, meself. Hate seeing numbers in a story, it does something weird to my brain.