I will freely admit that writers--including me--have favorite bits of dialogue and phrasing that we tend to use a lot. For a while there, I had a "sag-bellied rat" running through my books, and at other times every gun couldn't be picked up without the hero "slamming the cartridge home."
This video is a clever look at Aaron Sorkin's recycled bits, and it's rather eye-opening. Makes you appreciate just how influential a writer's words are, doesn't it? And all this time, I wanted to believe it was the characters speaking . . . ;-)
This video is a clever look at Aaron Sorkin's recycled bits, and it's rather eye-opening. Makes you appreciate just how influential a writer's words are, doesn't it? And all this time, I wanted to believe it was the characters speaking . . . ;-)
HT to Jim Bell for pointing me toward this video.
~~Angie
1 comment:
Fascinating.
I've been trying to watch out for that. As we're told: kill your darlings. Now I can see why. It's especially "dangerous" to let them live when they are such snappy lines long remembered. LOL
Thanks to JSB and you, Angie,
Mary Kay
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