Writing Style

[Your Huckleberry]

My favorite is "giggled" .. barf.

 

[friend of the friendless]

Sirs, Madames,

You could use "he laughs" anytime you quote Jason Spezza -- he has the nervous mannerism, somewhere between Valley Girl-ish and Mr Ed-esque. As for it being incoherent, well, almost. You lose the last word or two.

YHS, etc

 

[Bob Cook]

"'I figured sooner or later I'd hit a home run,' and 'this teams always has a chance' are lame quotes, no matter where they are in a story," Cook opined.

 

[Ace]

Interesting thread.

I don't mind ending a story with "he said," if that's appropriate.

I do recall a sports editor jabbing me with praise for a story but saying that it didn't have an ending. He was right.

I had given up and let it go and used all the usual excuses (they'd probably cut it anyway). But the bottom line was that I had a good story and didn't have a good ending and my boss noticed.

I never forgot that.

 

[mike311gd]

Interesting thread.

I don't mind ending a story with "he said," if that's appropriate.

I do recall a sports editor jabbing me with praise for a story but saying that it didn't have an ending. He was right.

I had given up and let it go and used all the usual excuses (they'd probably cut it anyway). But the bottom line was that I had a good story and didn't have a good ending and my boss noticed.

I never forgot that.

That's a great line of advice. There are so many stories I read where the ending is, well, somewhere else. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth.