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What's your strongest element?

What are you strongest at?

Description/Language/Style
87
33%
Dialogue
38
14%
Action/Pace
24
9%
Characterisation
42
16%
Narrative/Plots/Conflicts
36
14%
Themes
11
4%
Pat Buchanan Jokes
8
3%
Other
19
7%
 
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:18 pm
Firestarter says...



What element of prose/fiction do you consider yourself to be strongest at?

Personally I'd consider myself to be strongest at my language and description; I think I've always been able to describe and convey something to a reader quite well and use a good level of language to do it.
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:00 pm
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Galatea says...



Themes. I have a tendency to write in vague, colorful impressions. I like to maintain themes throughout, it makes my life much easier.
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:17 pm
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Doctor Kitty says...



Dialogue, most certainly.
"So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads."

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Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:19 pm
Snoink says...



I have no idea... O_o

Probably conflicts and pace. I'm quite a sadist to my characters, lol.
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:55 pm
Nate says...



Pat Buchanan Jokes definitely!
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:57 pm
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Snoink says...



I knew you would say that! :o
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:47 pm
Ani May Queen says...



Hm, I don't know. Probably characterisation, since I'm so obsessive with them and giving them back stories and such.

Except for Candy.

Darn you Candy!
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:18 pm
Fishr says...



I've actully never been asked this, lol. And so I cannot give a direct answer from experience but feedback over the years have said dialogue is my strongest contributation. *shrugs*

My second (are we allowed to list seconds?) would be conflict because like Snoink, I unconciously make 'em suffer. Whoops! I'm such a horrible writer! :x

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Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:30 pm
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sabradan says...



Its a three or four way tie for me:
Characterization
Dialogue
Plot/Conflict/Pace
Narrative
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:12 pm
Sureal says...



I like my plots, but also my characterisation and use of imagery.

I voted for narrative/plot/conflict :).
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:32 pm
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Elizabeth says...



Language.
It's very colorful. But I always need direction
so if there is no directions then all the words go like seagulls and fly randomly about, circling like stupid seagulls *shakes fist.*




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Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:33 pm
Cassandra says...



Mmm. Probably characterization, conflict, or dialouge. But I didn't pick the plot/narrative/conflict option because I can never develop an entire plot, so...XD
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:27 pm
pandoraswritings says...



I'm best, I believe, at description. I can never seem to tell good jokes. XD haha.
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Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:18 am
Areida says...



I voted dialogue, since that's what people seem to like most about my writing. My description bites. XD
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Sat Oct 07, 2006 5:34 am
Azrael says...



Plots. I love to come up with plots. I've created so many twists and turns that it's almost impossible to predict my story's ending.