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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      121/ ok, pop quiz: was the cross red, the gunbelt brown, the power armor gun metal gray, and the loincloth maroon, or was the armor gray, the belt red, the cross maroon, and the cross brown? answer: it doesn't matter, not at all, and so every word of description was wasted

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted J.A. Sutherland SciFi Books

      122/https://twitter.com/JASutherlandBks/status/1253049688443498497 …

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      J.A. Sutherland SciFi Books @JASutherlandBks
      This. Trust the reader. Give them just a bit of flavor and they'll fill in the whole meal. I very rarely describe characters appearance, and then only if it's some particular point I want to make about them, coding appearance for personality, say. Moreover, readers will 1/ https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1253045854350577666 …
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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted José Camões Silva

      123/ oh you!https://twitter.com/josecamoessilva/status/1253051885243600896 …

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      José Camões Silva @josecamoessilva
      Replying to @MorlockP @JASutherlandBks
      Y'know, there are these things called 'blogs,' like a twitter thread but easier to read; you could start one, I dunno call it "dispatches from Morlockistan," and post these things there without the limitations of 280 characters. Then you make an off-color joke… 🤓
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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      124/ Agreeing w @JASutherlandBks about appearance, and adding a thought: often the best way to hint at appearance is to describe behavior or character. If I mention an engineer doing CAD, you will fill in a look that resonates FOR YOU. If I mention a retired veteran ...

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      125/ Maybe you picture the engineer with a 1950s NASA buzzcut, maybe you picture him with a pierced lip...based off of engineers you've met. Either way, by going with character and background, your visual image is congruent with plot details.

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Ostav Beholden

      126/ I'm not known for low effort behavior OR for leaving a job half done.https://twitter.com/HopefulAbandon/status/1253052689992355840 …

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      Ostav Beholden @OstavNadezhdu
      this man wrote a 121+ tweet thread dunking on one guy and it's a fucking subtweet https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1253051404207489026 …
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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted J.A. Sutherland SciFi Books

      127/ yep, this works SO well I read one sentence, and I can picture the shoe-less scamp, the market stalls, the stacks of goods, the piles of coiled fiber optic cable, the hot samovar, the illegal wares, the tall hero wading through the chaoshttps://twitter.com/JASutherlandBks/status/1253053549916889090 …

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      J.A. Sutherland SciFi Books @JASutherlandBks
      Replying to @MorlockP
      I made the point on a panel a couple months ago, if I have my character get off a ship on a station and a kid runs up to her offering goods or "best deals", I've just put a picture in the reader's head where all I have to do is say she went to the market. 1/
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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      128/ and getting back to economy of words: if you really WANT to make sure that the reader knows some detail is there, you don't have to call it out as a separate element; you have the hero "push past the tea vendor, jostling his samovar". One sentence, multiple facts.

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      129/ Tying together the "push past the tea vendor" and also the bit earlier re Luke and his light saber - we are a visual culture, because of a century of movies. People understand visual language. Use that. Picture what the "camera" is focused on, what's in frame, what's not

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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      130/ I consciously chose to write in a style called "third person close". I think to think of this as "the camera" is perched on the viewpoint character's shoulder. Maybe it picks up a few words from inside his head, but not many. Camera PoV = character PoV

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

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      131/ here's an example. The character's head and the narrative PoV track in the same direction. When Allan looks up at the handhold, so does your attention.https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1253049622500708352 …

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      118/ chapter 3 Allan looked up. The next handhold was just a short reach up the wall. He stretched for it - and the suit alarm went off. Damn it. He silenced the warble tone, cleared the flashing "overheating"
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

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          132/ another when Linda Haig looks down at her watch, so does the reader PoVhttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1253049503395045380 …

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          117/ chapter 2: The taupe-carpeted corridor that ran down the center of the West Wing was quiet. Senator Linda Haig looked at her watch. Almost half an hour late. Hardly surprising; that woman was never -
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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

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          133/ Contrast:https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1252987257239339008 …

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          5/ ...but if you try to write a novel like this, the result is ... a breath-takingly terrible train wreck, e.g. pic.twitter.com/bvQEHLNYPI
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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

          134/ When the reader's attention is drawn, via the "camera", to the "maroon loincloth draped from his belt", our attention is focused there. What's the hero's attention focused on? OH, JUST THE DEMON THAT'S TRYING TO KILL HIM. This focus mismatch is excruciating.

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

          135/ ok, I gotta stop with the Burger University Remote Learning Class - I've only written 2,500 words today and need to get back to it.

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

          136/ a reminder: we read and analyze and criticize terrible fiction not to hurt anyone's feelings, but to learn from it - what mistakes bad authors make, and thus how we can avoid thempic.twitter.com/QrbPVvYmuv

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

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          137/ > as long as there's an audience Didn't you read the part where I analyzed his sales numbers? He basically doesn't have an audience. Learning how to write could change that. https://twitter.com/SherlockTowers/status/1253100001749762049?s=19 …

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