Ad jingles are kind of like that, too. I can’t remember where I left my keys earlier in the day but I can recite the lyrics to a Juicyfruit gum advertisement from the 1980’s nearly verbatim. So maybe fledgling writers should stop worrying too much about being “good” and instead focus on, for lack of a better term, their “flow.” It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. To be, or not to be. Imagine someone reading the audiobook of what you’re laying down, do the words keep a kind of rhythm even though they don’t rhyme? This is especially true of writing dialogue. Speak it out loud, in the voice of the character as you imagine them, and see how it sounds. That way you hopefully don’t run afoul of Harrison Ford’s apocryphal quip to George Lucas of “you can type this shit, but you can’t say it!” At very least I believe this could get you atarted, much the same as the music composers coming at the process from the other direction. It doesn’t have to be a full-on musical number, but a little bit of rhythm could go a long way.@mattstorerhere Art of the deal #comedy #music #fyp #parody #strangerthings
♬ original sound – Matt Storer
Finally, a new page! Even on a scale of our current scale back, late April and May this year was just a big ol' mess for your humble proprietors and it's good to be able to get back to more fictional messes of our own devising. So let's set our next playdate after this one for June 12th and see how we do. Hopefully at least as well as Rosa did with her slick return to the fold despite quite a few watchful eyes.
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2 thoughts on “528 – Snitches Get Glitches”
Anonymous
Ok, I believe you.
Anonymous
“Don’t you leave his side!”
Is this perhaps a teaser for a second volume hardcover “Chuck and Rosa Finally Do It” ? I really cherish my signed first edition, thank you very much.