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Freudian Typo
By: Skip Trace Date: August 20, 2023, 10:24 am
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Freudian Typo - when you're describing a paddling and mean to
use "he" for the boy being spanked but write "I" instead.
Yep, that just happened, and I had to smile when I realized what
I had done. Following up on the recent "stars" discussion,
approval is nice but I'm sure a lot of us -- most of us? -- are
motivated more by the chance to create a fictional world that we
would like to have lived in. That might be particularly true for
WHASS writers like me.
I'm finally wrapping up the third installment of my
"Synchronicity" series -- not by popular demand (ugh, those
stars again!), but because I planned a five-part series and I'd
like to finish it. Stay tuned for "Smoke," coming soon to an
archive near you.
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Re: Freudian Typo
By: David M. Katz Date: August 20, 2023, 2:33 pm
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Don't we all live through our characters?
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Re: Freudian Typo
By: afinch Date: August 20, 2023, 3:28 pm
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Don't know anything about the stars, but I can't wait to read
your story. Some of us who just read stories live through those
characters too. I know I do.
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Re: Freudian Typo
By: Zyngaru Date: August 20, 2023, 9:37 pm
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[quote author=David M. Katz link=topic=3003.msg27614#msg27614
date=1692559982]
Don't we all live through our characters?
[/quote]
I know I do.
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Re: Freudian Typo
By: DMackenzie:( Date: November 4, 2023, 7:09 am
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Certainly me this morning, getting 2k words into the next
chapter of 'Daniel' before realizing more than half the time I
was slipping an extra 'le' onto the end of his name. Thank
goodness for Ctrl+F.
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Re: Freudian Typo
By: Zyngaru Date: November 4, 2023, 9:35 pm
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[quote author=Skip Trace link=topic=3003.msg27613#msg27613
date=1692545069]
Freudian Typo - when you're describing a paddling and mean to
use "he" for the boy being spanked but write "I" instead.
[/quote]
I know I do this a lot, which is why I try to always write in
first person, present tense. I know I am the main character, so
why not just write the story as if I am. I have a bad problem
of switching tenses during a story anyway, so staying in first
person helps some with that tendency.
The absolute hardest thing for me is to be three or four
characters in my story at the same time, while attempting to
show each of their emotions and thoughts, while remaining in one
tense. I's and He's get all confused then.
As for it being a Freudian Slip, when I mean to write he, as the
character, but accidentally seeing myself in that position
instead of the character use I, it does happen. I mean, how can
it not?
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