Personally, I don't bother with 'he said' or other modifiers like that anymore. They look too silted and weird when... duh your character said it, it was his tag! If I have to describe the tone or anything like if the character is gasping or yelling, I do it in a separate sentence.
I don't see how that's a difference between prose and action brackets. You can work around awkward things like that very easily in both.
yep, this. i honestly don't see people using that shit like they should, it goes unused more often than not. we've sort of evolved prose writing because we know we're not writing books, a lot of prose these days is more informal or however you want to describe it. tbh a lot of the excuses i see now are just that. excuses.
first it was "prose is always too long and purple." it's not anymore.
now i see "well, prose is structured differently! and i don't like to use ~s/he said~ after every line of dialogue!" then... don't use it? half of us don't use it either!
i honestly do not understand the aversion to prose. unless you're doing that meta(?) shit where you're going [LMFAO XYZ IS SO TERRIBLE and abc just sighs dramatically in response............. knjfidghbui this is why he can't have nice things!!!] in your brackets, there's no damn difference in writing.
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Re: GAME PET PEEVES
(Anonymous) 2013-03-30 03:14 am (UTC)(link)I don't see how that's a difference between prose and action brackets. You can work around awkward things like that very easily in both.
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(Anonymous) 2013-03-30 04:55 am (UTC)(link)first it was "prose is always too long and purple." it's not anymore.
now i see "well, prose is structured differently! and i don't like to use ~s/he said~ after every line of dialogue!" then... don't use it? half of us don't use it either!
i honestly do not understand the aversion to prose. unless you're doing that meta(?) shit where you're going [LMFAO XYZ IS SO TERRIBLE and abc just sighs dramatically in response............. knjfidghbui this is why he can't have nice things!!!] in your brackets, there's no damn difference in writing.
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(Anonymous) 2013-03-30 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)