Fiction Rule of Thumb

jst5150 · Oct 2, 2008

Courtesy of Webcomic XKCD:

CaroGirl · Oct 2, 2008

Ooo. Fun.

When the Horlick stepped out from behind his army of hairy Hark'ens a black scraw swooped low in the sky and deposited a load of guano (real word) in his eye.

This is true for everyone except Dr. Suess. The Suess rules!!

Yeshanu · Oct 2, 2008

Thanks for the reminder, Jason. As a writer of fantasy, it's a good graph to keep in mind.

Yeshanu · Oct 2, 2008

CaroGirl said:
This is true for everyone except Dr. Suess. The Suess rules!!

No, there is another author who did it well, even better than Dr. Suess:

[SIZE=+2] `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.[/SIZE]

CaroGirl · Oct 2, 2008

Yeshanu said:
No, there is another author who did it well, even better than Dr. Suess:

Proof that what you can do in poetry, you can't get away with in prose.

Sarita · Oct 2, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLBjOIVIGqY

I love XKCD.

Pagey's_Girl · Oct 2, 2008

Stephen Donaldson gets away with making up a good number of words. He also uses a lot of words I thought were made up but turned out to be real.

Fiction Rule of Thumb

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