Lecy Elliotte

Romance author. Romance reader. DM me for review copies. All reviews appreciated. Five stars not required.

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Check out this review of Paying Tuition on The Turned Page:

https://t.co/0x9V4iEPhF

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The unrealistic part of The Emperor's New Clothes is that as soon as the little boy pointed out the truth, everyone agreed with him. In real life, they would have silenced him immediately to protect the status quo even though everyone already knew he was right.

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@AyaMaguire The first 2 are obvious hyperbole, but the 3rd could be serious without the "literally". "Literally" marks it as hyperbole.

Is hyperbole figurative? Maybe, though I tend to reserve "figurative" for more metaphorical phrasings.

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I just don't get why some people, apparently including Merriam-Webster, think "literally" means "figuratively". I've never seen or heard it used for this.

It certainly is used for to emphasize figurative descriptions, but it does not *mean* figuratively. It means "very".

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@AyaMaguire The last example is particularly interesting. ""I am literally gonna get fired for this" connotes "I am not going to get fired for this, but it's pretty bad." It's a de-emphasizer and a hyperbole marker. Maybe in all three cases.

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@AyaMaguire No, in none of those examples does "literally" *mean* figuratively. They *are* figurative, but in each case literally is used for emphasis, meaning something like "extremely".

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I may write billionaire fantasies, but that doesn't mean you should have to be one to take your kids to the zoo.

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There was a long line of people at the @prospectparkzoo this weekend who weren't allowed in because they didn't have a credit card, a smart phone, or both. @TheWCS needs to stop excluding less privileged families.

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Lately I've been watching lots of videos about disassociation, which is super valuable because:

1. This doesn't seem to be an experience I have, ever, even with heavy psychoactive drugs.
2. It explains how some people act & think in ways that previously surprised and baffled me

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YouTube is incredibly useful for learning how people who are nothing like you think, act, and see themselves. Extremely helpful for authors who don't want to make every character a version of themselves. Podcasts and TikTok are also good.

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@Ada_Palmer Maybe we should reinvest in the two that worked and rethink the one that failed?

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@CalltoActivism Yes. The answer is yes.

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Reading The Night and Its Moon by @pipercjbooks and she totally slipped the protagonist's magic power by me not once but three times before it was revealed. Excellent use of Chekhov's Spellbook.

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HBO: We just flushed decades of advertising and a billion dollars of brand recognition down the toilet.

Twitter: Hold my beer.

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Cat: I am mysterious and inscrutable. Bow before my secret wisdom.

Also Cat: Spends six hours playing with blue plastic cap from protein shake.

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@C_H_Armstrong Honestly, I don't see that one too much these days. The two most common errors I see are two spaces after a period and using an extra line break between paragraphs instead of setting space after paragraph.

I just checked and "The Mac is Not a Typewriter" is still in print. ����

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@ZoeYorkWrites Bless their hearts. I hope no one sends them any of my work or their pretty little heads might explode.

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I wasn't paying close attention but when I saw that weird Ron Desantis ad, my initial reaction was, "Hmm, now Donald Trump is trying to attract some LGBTQIA+ votes?"

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“The disappearance of their submersible as it dove toward the wreckage of the Titanic sparked a no-expenses-spared search-and-rescue mission and rolling headlines. The ship packed with refugees and migrants did not.”

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@kj_charles By "bad" do you mean stupid or immoral? If the former, how stupid? Characters make mistakes (as do authors) but characters carrying idiot balls are usually uninteresting and signs of lazy writing.