Wow! I would like to read this essay. :supersmile:
Hey all, I'm trying to use future tense, "will" in a narrative that's in past tense. I understand there are no inflected forms for the future,...
Hey all, My idea for a bank robbery involves a guy using a GPS/Radio Frequency jammer to block signals that cause a dyepack or tracker from going...
Hey all, I'm wondering if you can introduce a major character in Act 2 of a novel. Using James Scott Bell's 3-Act structure it would be after the...
Okay, last try -- what about THIS? :brb: It was a substrate reality, deeper than appearance, as a silicon chip is to a computer.
Okay, I'm just gonna open it up. How can I use the words, "silicon chip" or "hardware" or "etched circuits" or any other computer-ese and still...
What about this instead? -- "Loser” was not, in his mind, a subjective term. It was a cold, bland fact like the etched circuits on a silicon chip....
I'm talking about a single specific fact. He's a "loser." So we're back to "a line of code"? What about "as irrefutable as a line of code created...
But isn't that irrefutable? If it's a candy bar you always feed it to the pigs. No way to counter or deny that. Right? It's like my character --...
If anyone can throw out any alternatives. Just any top-of-your-head stuff I'M ALL EARS! :)
So the metaphor is just plain confusing? That's all I really want to know. I don't want to go into all the "nerd" stuff. I do that all later. And...
It's just a super-short excerpt from a much longer passage about this guy. I go into the whole "loser" thing much more later. But right now I'm...
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