Zake, The Novelist
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'ello! I am Zake. Welcome to my profile.
Writing is fun, hard, and interesting.
Feel free to message me.
Some sites that may be worth a look:
- Punctuating dialogue!- Apostrophes!
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"Then contact them, now!"
"The OERF has already reached out; Verde accepted their call."
"Good."
"That damn facility, I knew we never should've allowed it operate in such an incognito manner!"
"Let us hope for a clean resolution."
"What a mess."
"CO says the shuttle has landed."
"Putting all our trust in one Remroid...what could possibly go wrong?"
"Hey - it's worked out before. Let's not start doubting them now."
"Oh, I do hope for their success."
"Don't we all?"
Written for the Damned and the SHAMED contest (by Mizal).
Entry into End Master's Manifest Destiny Contest (2021).
A stand-alone sequel to: Elvis At The Beauty Contest.
Join Miz, Matt, and Mandy as Madame Coon recounts the tale of the Capi's band and their missing instruments!
Recent Posts
Illegal Contest Interest Thread on 4/8/2024 7:35:49 AMEpic on 4/2/2024 3:05:28 AM
Rougelike on 3/29/2024 3:10:20 AM
Proofreading on 3/27/2024 10:46:35 PM
Proofreading on 3/19/2024 8:57:59 PM
I'm much happier proofreading others' things than proofreading my own (see, Hues of Infection, lol).
Proofreading for contests can be iffy if there isn't enough time. There's also always the concern of being wrong in the proofreading or ruining the style by imposing my own over it. Pretty sure the only story I proofread (that I didn't write for) that got published has since been removed, but I like to think my effort kept it from being unpublished right away, heh.
Maybe Bezro will take the communal approach by using the sneak preview toggle. But it is true that most people seem to be writing (or procrastinating) their own submissions.
Using Variables To Effect Dialogue on 3/6/2024 4:03:27 PM
On-Page Scripting Paragraphs
Putting a newline character (pressing enter) breaks the on page script, but you can just substitute them with HTML break characters instead.
Add more or less to get the desired spacing (I use 2).
If you're using the Rich Text Editor be sure you are adding it as HTML (does RTE still have a source button? Click it if it does).
Pagetext & Page Script
Another thing that can give similar results is using $PAGETEXT, which isn't on-page scripting, but goes on the page script (haven't tried with link scripts, don't think it'd work there).
i.e.,
$PAGETEXT := "Added at start. " + $PAGETEXT
$PAGETEXT := $PAGETEXT + "
Added at end."
Starting Page Text:
This is a new page.
OUTPUT:
Added at start. This is a new page.
Added at end.
:= means assign to, while = alone is for comparison. I know I forget the : sometimes, which breaks things.
Because it is in page script, you can add variable conditionals before $PAGETEXT changes.
i.e.,
IF %BLANC = 0 THEN
$PAGETEXT := "He is dead."
From what I recall, you can use newline characters here (without HTML) but you do need to escape the double quotations. & q u o t ; = ". (Drop the spaces between & q u o t ;, because I don't know how to have it not be read as HTML but written in correct form and am too lazy to google it).
i.e.,
$PAGETEXT := "& q u o t;Watch out!& q u o t; he yells." + $PAGETEXT
NOT ""Watch out!" he yells"
I'm sure you can see how this can be tedious, but if there is minimal or no dialogue, it can be worth considering.
Tips and Tricks
Replacing spaces with breaks (for on-page scripting) or quotations with their entity code (for page scripts) makes proofreading harder, so I advise writing normally (but clearly marked) in another writing software. This can also act as a backup. (Word has a search and replace feature, for example, which makes replacing quotations easy). But do whatever works for you.
Do be aware that text added through page scripts doesn't start on the page, so isn't counted towards the length calculations. If you write the whole story this way it'll be marked as 0 words, which is funny. Considering you're probably using this for similar but different permutations of the same scene, I find it evens out, where it lets you avoid artificial bloat to the word count (from copy pasting many similar pages, which is another cruder option). Depends on how you structure things.
Endings on 3/1/2024 9:45:29 PM
IF I write a Conditional statement AND... on 2/1/2024 6:32:17 AM
Will's new CSI series on 1/15/2024 9:14:51 PM
❅ Secret Santa ❅ on 1/14/2024 8:21:32 PM
In my attempts to be sneaky, I used MHDs work as the pose reference. Sent noticed the lack of line weight, and I consider that one of the main giveaways. Adding them is a pain (not a stylus, a mouse, hence the copious amounts of tracing), but I also tend to forget to add them later. The other thing I like doing is gradient backgrounds.
Of course, used character references too, and tried copying MHD expressions, since they're so emotive. Next time I'll copy her castle designs, because that would definitely throw people off. (I did quickly give up on passing it off as MHD work, because it did not take long to realise I couldn't replicate it at all closely enough, aha).