Dale Lucas

Author of the Fifth Ward series (Orbit Books). F/H/Susp Novelist and screenwriter. Loves what never was, what might have been, and what's yet to be.

[Dale Lucas @DaleLucas114]

@rhiannongopuz I get your point. I’d love to see these films as springboards for fresh Merseyside talent, too. But studios won’t finance pricey projects without name talent. Studio moneymen don’t care about authenticity or opportunity, they care about marketing potential. It sucks, but 🤷‍♂️

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@wildhart_z As an American: yes. My countrymen never fail to disappoint me.

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@GreenEyezzzzz Blue and a lifelong Floridian. I can verify, I am depressed daily.

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@Nickyshearsby22 If you’ve engaged absorbed the contents of the book by reading them on a printed page, listening to them as an audiobook, using braille, etc, then you’ve ‘read’ the book. Arguing semantics on this point is silly. So, yes, people who listened to an audiobook have read the book.

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@LakotaMan1 They are, in the parlance of our friends in the UK, ‘Soft as shite.’ Just like the whiny orange shitsack they worship.

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@UNCfaninKS @SunnyAnderson But what do you put on a sandwich? To me, a sandwich isn’t a sandwich without some sort of spreadable condiment.

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@FelicityHewitt_ I’ve always taken it as a reminder just not overdo the colorful dialogue tags. Deploy them only as necessary, stick to ‘said’ most of the time. But every ‘rule’ has its exceptions.

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@esc_key There are a tiny handful of books that I might silently judge a person for labeling their ‘favorite.’ Four or five, for very specific reasons. Other than that? People should just like what they like:no guilt, no apologies, no ‘it’s a guilty pleasure.’

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My hot take, backing this: plot twists and big, mind-blowing narrative surprises are massively overrated. I’m not reading/watching to find out what happens—I’m reading/watching to experience how/why it happens. Could care less if anything surprises me.

[Amalie/AR Frederiksen @ARFrederiksen]

Y'know, when a plot twist is called predictable or obvious, it's sometimes because the author wasn't actually going for a plot twist. They might've been going for suspense rather than surprise. I kinda wish that modern audiences thought more about this distinction at times.

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@JaceSerrano This was AMAZING. 😂

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@ElusiveStory I’m sure there is a ‘maximum ideal’ number of POVs in a book, but I’ve never found it. Personally, I love shifting POVs (provided it’s all written/orchestrated well).

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@williemeikle I envy the skill. I read constantly, but I also read slowly. An entire 100K book in a day would be incredibly difficult for me.

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@JeffSharlet No one internalizes the vibe of ‘I Am A Rock’ better than a melancholy 15-year-old. (I speak from experience.)

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@FreckledLiberty For this man? Absolutely not true. I’m turned on by passion, intelligence, and skill. Submissiveness, bland sweetness, and the absence of passions and opinions is *not* a turn-on.

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@AmericanGwyn I remember reading All The Pretty Horses in college and that phrase—‘dark electric’—just lodged in my brain. I think every poem or story I write for 5 years after that read would drop that phrase whenever I could work it in.

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@altonbrown British HP sauce is one of the greatest condiments ever. It needs to catch on here in the states.

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@gemmafiles I really hated that movie, but I’m also in awe of its unapologetic insanity.

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@livi2chronicles I’ve published 12 books. Writing is all I’ve ever wanted to do. I’ve worked hard at it. I’m nearly 50 and should know what I can or can’t do well. And I am CERTAIN that every book I’ve written—or will write—is garbage. The Imposter just likes to whisper in your ear. Don’t listen.

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@KT_Carlisle I find that I enjoy putting on a totally different persona POV in my work. It’s like being an actor: why would you only want to play characters ‘like you’ when you can be someone/something completely different?