Thread: pig latin and another questions

Q1. I have been duing pretty good writing my book but I have one problem. my imigination move faster than my ability to writ. in fact I'e got enough plot for three books. now. which is fine but I'd really like to focus more on my writing than the plot know. any advice.

Q2. would my signature make a good blurb for a book if rewriten.

Q3. I use a couple sentnceses of pig latin to make a smart character more wimsicole but at the same time droping a nonesential but interesting plot point. really it works well but I want to use it again to change a certain character via fake cure all spell. so so I may use it again. but it's starting to besomething of a plot driver. in fact if anything they don't want the main characters to know. and in a strangley usefull way it may work if I don't over use it. so whats youre take on this.

Originally Posted by kunox

Q1. I have been duing pretty good writing my book but I have one problem. my imigination move faster than my ability to writ. in fact I'e got enough plot for three books. now. which is fine but I'd really like to focus more on my writing than the plot know. any advice.

Do you have every scene, every line, every dialogue, and every movement figured out? If not, you still have some work to do on your plot. That work is often done as you write, so I don't think there is a problem with this.

Q2. would my signature make a good blurb for a book if rewriten.

I don't understand your signature's meaning, so I can't comment on that.

Q3. I use a couple sentnceses of pig latin to make a smart character more wimsicole but at the same time droping a nonesential but interesting plot point. really it works well but I want to use it again to change a certain character via fake cure all spell. so so I may use it again. but it's starting to besomething of a plot driver. in fact if anything they don't want the main characters to know. and in a strangley usefull way it may work if I don't over use it. so whats youre take on this.

Just remember that people in general don't have a clue of Latin. In general terms, assume the reader has no knowledge of any foreign languages you are using, and also, assume he does (don't write nonsense just because most people don't understand Latin; someone out there does).

Q2. striding and swagering {basicallt struting}rootlessness with out end { used to describe something that has no home}the precious flow of life.{ basically what makes life good.}

Q3. youre right on everything except one thing. pig latin is not a foriegn langauge. it's a well known fake one. I'll think I'll make it a plot point. ut sounds good. plus I will hhave to assume no one knows a thing about it.

Originally Posted by kunox

Q2. striding and swagering {basicallt struting}rootlessness with out end { used to describe something that has no home}the precious flow of life.{ basically what makes life good.}

If written well it could be a nice sub-title for your book, but it needs some work. The words don't really chain together as a single sentence. If I were to make sense of it as it is:

Striding and swaggering, rootless and without end, so is the precious flow of life.

That is, assuming that the subject is "the precious flow of life".

Q3. youre right on everything except one thing. pig latin is not a foriegn langauge. it's a well known fake one. I'll think I'll make it a plot point. ut sounds good. plus I will hhave to assume no one knows a thing about it.

Well sorry, I have never heard of pig Latin, so I assumed you meant Latin. Latin is both foreign and dead to anyone that is currently alive, so I gave my advice based on that.

well this book has tfour stories with one overall story that runs tthrough them all. so the theme is fighting the fates and but the overal story is about cheating them. I hate to give up this detail but the first story about proving one incopetent.

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kunox,
I'll have to give my ruthless advice here... unless you are writing for children I would strongly suggest against using pig Latin. Pig Latin is a language children use and I think it would really detract from your story or at the least, make it sound amateurish. Now, if you are writing only for yourself then go ahead but if you are hoping to have other people read it or are looking at the future in publishing, then don't make that a plot point. You would be better off inventing your own kind of language or a language the characters have made up to talk with each other. And you mention you are assigning it to a "smart" character? Honestly, if I read that, I would immediately think the character is intellectually lacking as pig latin is simplistic to the most childish extreme. If your character is an eight-year-old, go for it. Otherwise, I don't think it will enhance your story only detract and distract.

As for your signature, it is too vague to be a book blurb. Typically, a blurb will introduce at least the lead character, the conflict, and some kind of hook detail that will get the reader wanting to pick up the book. As it stands, the signature line is almost completely nonsensical and tells me nothing about your story.

There's no problem with having lots of plot and my suggestion would be to stop worrying about the intellectual musings of whether its a problem and just keep writing! There's a quote somewhere that essentially says you have to write a lot of crap before you get to the good stuff. From the amount of grammatical and spelling errors in your correspondence, I would challenge you to focus on improving the mechanics of your writing and just write until you cry. It's the only way to get better, I know from my own growing experience. I wish you luck and success in crafting delightful plots for years to come

Cheers,
Lindsay