Writing
Related: About this forumI found this nifty table online, and it's been helping me with my writing
People commented elsewhere that they're "sick and tired" of stories and other works using the word 'said' regarding a person speaking, and here it is: https://www.spwickstrom.com/said/
Hopefully, it'll help you, too.
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Hermit-The-Prog
(36,123 posts)ret5hd
(21,060 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,123 posts)sakabatou
(42,694 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,123 posts)It is likely that someone, somewhere has depicted a conversation as,
He goes, "Derp. Derp. Derp." and then she goes, "Yup. Yup. Yup." and then we go, "Hoooeeeey!"
Excuse me. I now have to go break my fingers for typing that.
DavidDvorkin
(19,740 posts)That's dreadful. Stick to "said".
sakabatou
(42,694 posts)However, I will use adverbs with 'said' when needed.
sinkingfeeling
(52,458 posts)sakabatou
(42,694 posts)Old Crank
(4,252 posts)She resonded.
birdographer
(2,087 posts)Have just started my first effort at writing a book, and so this is a timely help.
Marthe48
(18,289 posts)In case I'm discussing forgotten history, Tom Swift was a fictional boy inventor from my Dad's youth. I have a few of his books, and read them when I was young. The author wrote dialog and usually used adverbs to describe how the person was speaking. For almost every line of dialog. A year or so after I read them, someone came up with the idea of Tom Swifties. a gag where you made up a line of dialog and then used an adverb that made the whole thing funny.
For example:
"I dropped a desk on my foot," Tom said woodenly. (i just made that up)
Back then, I made up this one:
"I lost my toothpaste," Tom said crestfallenly.
Maybe between using alternate words for said, and the humorous context, we can make up a whole new use of humor (she expostulated wildly) lol
I bookmarked the link. Thank you.
JustAnotherGen
(32,956 posts)Used the word - ejaculated - a lot. I'm rereading her body of work this year - and she used it a great deal through the mid 1950's