tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4885821333601304826.post5368988031814385641..comments2023-08-14T06:26:22.886-05:00Comments on just me again: Quotes and TagsDorathea Maynardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03435183777689386863noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4885821333601304826.post-79910168618862208002011-04-18T18:31:36.255-05:002011-04-18T18:31:36.255-05:00That's funny. You know that in Doctor Who, th...That's funny. You know that in Doctor Who, the Doctor "regenerates" -- instead of dying, he turns into a different guy with a different face and a different personality, but he retains all his memories and his Doctorness. Well, one -- just one -- of his incarnations did this. The tenth Doctor quotes songs and references movies a lot, starting with quoting the Lion King... on accident. It was amusing.Jessiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09461435143872441097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4885821333601304826.post-20423443048557865012011-04-15T23:05:57.501-05:002011-04-15T23:05:57.501-05:00Oh, tags, so that's what they're called. ...Oh, tags, so that's what they're called. Nice to have a word to go with the concept (thanks!).<br /><br />My favorite would be catch phrases. When they are unique to a specific character they make fun tags, and since I myself use probably 5+ catchphrases of my own consistently (do "so be it" and "I've heard that rumor" sound familiar?), it helps me relate to the people I write out. Trouble is they get old quickly if not done well, and you can forget about having more than one or two characters with a catch phrase in any particular story. My second favorite is giving the character a pet peeve. Everyone loves to watch the guy who hates Jack Black go on a rant when "Kung Fu Panda III" posters start going up.<br /><br />Hardest? Consistently witty characters, definitely. It's one thing to throw out the wit in a real conversation as you play off of other people, it's another thing entirely to have to craft the entire conversation yourself in order to bring out the character's wittiness. Very tough. I have resorted to writing down great phrases that come into my conversations with the intention of finding places to work them into the story dialogue. Even then, they rarely seem as funny on paper.Thomashttp://www.thechifiles.comnoreply@blogger.com