Today's #flashfiction #LittleGearsFlashFiction

“Break a leg.”

Evel Knievel* #quote

       Today and yesterday I analyzed my #Deadpool comic in depth, specifically the dialogue to see if I could learn something from it to add to my novel and short story writing. I decided to read it and see how they wrote everything to see if I could learn anything since they're the specialists in the field of dialogue.

        I soon realized that they write things very differently than it is done in books. First there was a lot of small one or two word bold text mixed in. For example Deadpool said: “Uh, I don't even like macaroni an' cheese.” They really used it to simulate even more time passing and breaths in dialogue among other things. Makes up for the fact they can't add dialogue tags like normal writing. Comic book writers have to deal with the passage of time and creating voices for their characters with saying “they talk like this” and the bold was a way to do that.

     Another thing is that the comic was very punctuation heavy and I didn't even notice it the first time around. And I mean a lot. It wasn't a bunch of semi-colons, but to further add to how to characters were talking there were tons of commas, dashes, apostrophes etc.

      I don't quite think I can actually apply the comic book writing style to my book writing style exactly considering such heavy punctuation is usually frowned on, and I can't throw in bolded words either. However I think I've still learned things from the comic, dialogue or otherwise. I try to find out things from all stories I'm exposed to. 

         Oh! With that little ramble I almost forgot to mention I submitted a story to the Writers Of The Future contest. Wish me luck!

         Anyway onto the flash fiction!

Little Gear's Flash Fiction

      There once was a young artificial intelligence named Little Gear. One so smart scientists thought it could think on a level unlike any other, even with some form of creativity. They decided they would have it write a story to help prove their point. An here is the story that Little Gear wrote for the scientists:

       Protagonist name = “Jake Blade”;

       Story plot = “Star Wars” + “Rain Man”;

       Setting main = “Rome with robots”;

       Story name = “Buy This Story”;

       When the scientists asked their machine to create a story they didn't expect the creative machine to creatively rip off other stories and not even bother writing something original. Asking it again produced no better results. But some scientists wondered if Little Gear was onto something.

       Author Comment: Been forever since I wrote code, and that's what Little Gear's story was in, kinda, with its own made up variables. That's Java specifically. And yeah, you have to have semicolons at the end of everything. And I remember when coding when you forget a semicolon BOOM! The thing crashes. Thank goodness my writing doesn't crash when I miss punctuation. Man if it did....