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Re: Conjunction? Re: That important? - 9 years ago

That’s interesting. I read somewhere (I think in a college writing class) that people read over the word “said” and don’t really notice it and that beginning writers often work too hard to avoid it. But I agree with you I find it annoying if it’s used too often. Though I do think it’s possible to go too far the other way. I tend identify the speakers by having them do something (Mr. Darcy frowned,
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Re: What is in a name--- - 9 years ago

I can see the logic of that, based on what characters call each other in the books, especially if they are refereeing to each other while talking to a third person. That being said I do like it when the Darcy’s both call each other by first name when talking to each other because IMO it shows and intimacy and a type of equality between them.
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Re: Darcy's Good Turn. - 9 years ago

Love it!
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Re: Mrs. Bennet’s name is probably Jane. - 9 years ago

I assumed that too but, it just occurred to me, maybe Anne is also their Ladyships’ mother’s name and both are named after her.
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Thanks for the info. - 9 years ago

That all makes sense I thought you meant there was a way you could really tell how many finished that I was missing. I figured that people who have already paid for Kindle Unlimited wouldn’t be likely to pay for a book that’s not available that way unless they have a compelling reason to want to read it. So even if shares drop I make more than I do from someone not reading the book at all. Plu
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From the author POV - 9 years ago

I like it too. I recently self-published a book (first time)and I’m actually making a bit more per book this way than when people buy it. But I can see where established authors might not want to be tied to only distributing through Amazon. Can I ask you something? How do you know how many people read the book through? For example if on a given day 1400 KNPs were read. How would I know weather t
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Re: Question for writers. - 9 years ago

I wouldn’t use it in a Regency story but as far as usage today, I find its most often used in professional settings where weather a woman is married or not shouldn’t make any difference. Also, once I got to a certain age the title Miss felt to me like it had a certain stigma attached – I find Ms. much more dignified. It’s really not about whether people can be bothered to find out my marital statu
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Re: A couple P&P aha moments - 10 years ago

Re: Mr Bennet has never been put forward by me as man of the year. Fair enough. And I’m not making a case for his being totally bad. Like Lizzy I can love him and still see his faults. As to the other characters, if your point is that no one is perfect I agree. I’m not placing him somewhere on a scale of perfection with the other characters I’m only looking at where he could have done better hi
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Re: A couple P&P aha moments - 10 years ago

She may be indicating an interest in Colonel Foster in Chapter 7. Quote“I liked a red coat myself very well -- and, indeed, so I do still at my heart; and if a smart young colonel, with five or six thousand a year, should want one of my girls, I shall not say nay to him; and I thought Colonel Forster looked very becoming the other night at Sir William's in his regimentals." But she’s not quick e
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Re: A couple P&P aha moments - 10 years ago

RE: “I would say that he wished he had checked his wife's frivolities more and his daughters' outgoings.” Agreed yet he doesn’t actually do so. As I said above he allows his daughters to be spoiled at the expense of their own future. Its regret but I don’t see any evidence that he’s really burdened by it. Weather you or any normal man would consider the entail a burden isn’t the point. I don’t
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Re: A couple P&P aha moments - 10 years ago

Yes, we know from the JA as well as from the text you quote that Mrs. Bennet’s nerves have been a large factor in his life. But we also see him take every opportunity to rile Mrs. Bennet up so if he’s tired of his constant companions I wonder that he continues to encourage their visiting so often. I can sympathies with Mr. Bennet for making a poor marriage choice and enjoy his witticisms while s
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Re: A couple P&P aha moments - 10 years ago

He’s certainly no Super Villain but what you describe of his family’s lifestyle in you second paragraph, IMO, boils down to allowing his daughters to be spoiled at the expense of their own futures. There are worse things he could do but I don’t consider failing to correct one’s children and allowing them to be spoiled to be good parenting. His sins are sins of omission. I don’t think anyone, besid
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Thanks for clarifying - 10 years ago

QuoteEven when just for fun, though, some aspirants might want to look for ways to improve their work. I admire that. And I would never hold someone's imperfections against them, being fairly imperfect myself. I agree with this - I think I mistook the tone/intention of your original post - I apologize. And I do appreciate the link you gave us! I already discovered that a word I'd assumed was a
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Re: For anyone who was in any doubt... - 10 years ago

I figured as much and as such I found it more amusing than off putting. ) I understand that anachronisms can be jarring and take one out of the story. My only point is we are all at the mercy of what we don’t know, we don’t know. For example, I know by now that “alright” isn’t alright in regency dialouge but a few years ago I wouldn’t have known to question it’s usage, so I wouldn’t even have th
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Re: Just a thought - 10 years ago

Thanks for the resource! I’ve been using Johnson’s and Austen Thesaurus when I need to check a word. But, I have to admit; when I’m writing something just for fun to post online I usually don’t bother much about how a word would have been used in regency time. I’m revising something now that I’m looking toward publishing so I’m trying to be more conscientious about anachronisms but it’s hard bec
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thank you smiling smiley nfm - 10 years ago

nfm
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Re: Answering Redson and Amytat..... - 10 years ago

Yes but Austin never appeared as a guest on Oprah. Re: “To re-make a previous point, Jane Austen's characters and her period are much to do with he continuing popularity over time.” I understood your point I’m disagreeing. Or, at least in my own case, the period she writes in has little to do with what I enjoy about her writing. In fact knowing her books were from that period kept me from givi
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Re: If Jane Austen were alive today... - 10 years ago

I disagree. IMO it's not what she wrote about but how she wrote that makes her stand out. There are plenty of writers who could be read as a historical reference that I have no interest in. I think she could find as much to satirize today as she did in her own time.
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Re: If Jane Austen were alive today... - 10 years ago

Re: "so much modern writing includes descriptions (sometimes really bad descriptions!)" This is why I think she wouldn't do it, it's trendy, and she was never really one to follow trends. I would more imagine her writing something like, “That the two of them should fall in love without ever having once torn off each other’s cloths may seem incredible…” I could see her bringing a couple to the po
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Re: If Jane Austen were alive today... - 10 years ago

I can imagine her saterizing the way today's writers depict sex.
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Sorry to cause confusion! - 10 years ago

I thought I had read everthing in the thread before replying. I'm not sure how I missed that you had already replied, Redson, but I apoligize for giving the same info again.
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Chapter 45 - 10 years ago

In general I agree with your posts in this thread but as to Darcy wishing to marry Bingley to Georgiana its JA that tells us he had formed such a plan. QuoteChapter 45 To no creature had it been revealed, where secresy was possible, except to Elizabeth; and from all Bingley's connexions her brother was particularly anxious to conceal it, from that very wish which Elizabeth had long ago attribute
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Re: Gail Carriger - Parasol Protectorate - 10 years ago

I very much enjoyed those books ) Good question: I wish I could remember the details better – I can’t think of any reason she couldn’t be staked – could there have been some sort of political reason? As to starving her, maybe for a vampire that would just be torture, starving to death but never actually dying?
by Amytat - JAFF Library

Re: Mr. Darcy’s P&P POV (the abridged version) - part 1 - 10 years ago

You've captured his voice well - looking forward to more. )
by Amytat - Derbyshire Writers' Guild

If we’re talking about potential fanfiction - 10 years ago

Then I think there are possibilities for how having such a secret, possibly knowing that his own family would reject him if he knew ect., might change Darcy’s character. Would he be more secretive and sometimes purposely mislead others out of self-preservation? Would he try to convince himself he can be “normal” and marry only to find he can’t live up to the standard he’s set for himself? Ect. (Bu
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Thanks and One shot - 10 years ago

Thanks to all for the responses – glad you enjoyed it. And, I apologize for not making it clear I meant this as a one shot. It’s possible at some point more inspiration will strike me but I don’t currently have any plans to expand on this. -sorry
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Re: Yes, but again employing my renegade reasoning... - 10 years ago

Yes but he didn’t do that knowingly, he and his cousin were misled as to her character. “Mislead” implies that they did check into her but the information they were given wasn’t true. All anyone had to go on at the time was the word of others.
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Re: It's a confusing subject, hard to keep it straight winking smiley - 10 years ago

Hypothetically: I still think Anne would make the best beard. She’s not shown to be very perceptive like Lizzy is or to take much interest in anything. Darcy could simply behave the same way as any other man in a marriage of convenience might and there’s no reason Anne, Lady Catherine or anyone else would find out he prefers men. Lady Catherine is already involving herself in Darcy’s life if anyt
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Re: And what would be that "incontrovertible evidence"? - 10 years ago

LOL You got me imagining a scene (PG) which I posted on the DWG board under the title "Incontrovertible Evidence."
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Incontrovertible Evidence - 10 years ago

Incontrovertible Evidence Inspired by a conversation on the Tea Room board. Mr. Darcy looked up from his book with a frown as a maid entered his room carrying a glass of wine. “There must be some mistake. I did not order anything.” She placed the wine on the table and sauntered toward him. As she approached Mr. Darcy noticed that her hair had come loose and there was something wrong with her
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