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Question for Writers
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There's something I can't decide on. When it comes to dialect of English, should depend on the nationality of the writer or of the characters?
I'm Australian. I usually write in Australian English, but my story Second Street a while ago was set in America and focused on American culture, so I wrote in American English.
Right now I'm just finishing up a novella to submit to a writing competition. The story is set in America, the characters are American, a focus of the plot is American culture, but the competition is Australian. So should it be in Australian or American English?
Thought, anyone?
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DD
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Thanks so much to my suggester and my featurer for my second Daily Deviation on Second Street. Wow, guys, this is amazing.
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For the last few months, I've been running the Two Thousand Words project over at my group Teenage-Writers, and we just got a group of our own for it.
Posting of the works combining literature and art by over 40 deviants will begin in November, and hopefully next year and following years more rounds will continue! I'm currently trying to spread the word for the group to build up watchers, so drop us by if you'd like to take a look at our projects!
Posting of the works combining literature and art by over 40 deviants will begin in November, and hopefully next year and following years more rounds will continue! I'm currently trying to spread the word for the group to build up watchers, so drop us by if you'd like to take a look at our projects!
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I think like Dan Brown ...a little
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Reading 'Inferno' by Dan Brown and am totally stoked I got one of the clues! And in fact, I used it myself (in the loosest definition) a few years ago.
*spoilers*
Just got up to the clue "cerca trova" which mean "seek" and "find," hidden on a Italian fresco which is rumoured to hide Leonardo da Vinci's 'Battle of Anghiari,' a famous supposedly lost painting.
And I totally knew it! Also for an art exhibition a few years ago I inked "cerca trova" on the side of the canvas on my submission as a reference.
And I also knew from the start he wasn't saying "very sorry."
Ha. I know more than ...at least one of the characters.
*now back to reading*
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'A Thousand Words' (?) Project
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So, I'm running a (hopefully) big art/literature collaboration project, promoted over at my group Teenage-Writers and our awesome partner The-Youngest-Artists (but open to all deviants of all ages!).
Things are pretty well. We've had more than 40 people sign up, and we're not even a week into our month-long acceptance period. I was worried originally that we wouldn't get enough artists, but we've actually got more of them than writers. I'm making up some parts of the procedure as I go along and there's been a few glitches on my side, but all in all it's going well! I'm going to be writing too, so it's a good kick in the pants for the novella I'm working on.
The main thing is at this point actually ...we need a name for this project. There have been a few suggests from participants. I was thinking 'A Thousand Words,' but perhaps with a twist? Maybe 'Two Thousand Words'? 'One-and-a-half Thousand Words'? Or does that just sound silly?
Argh decisions.
Things are pretty well. We've had more than 40 people sign up, and we're not even a week into our month-long acceptance period. I was worried originally that we wouldn't get enough artists, but we've actually got more of them than writers. I'm making up some parts of the procedure as I go along and there's been a few glitches on my side, but all in all it's going well! I'm going to be writing too, so it's a good kick in the pants for the novella I'm working on.
The main thing is at this point actually ...we need a name for this project. There have been a few suggests from participants. I was thinking 'A Thousand Words,' but perhaps with a twist? Maybe 'Two Thousand Words'? 'One-and-a-half Thousand Words'? Or does that just sound silly?
Argh decisions.
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