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Whether they literally read their stories aloud as they type, there are authors I'm pretty sure hear their language in their heads. When you record audiobooks, you can tell. Though in honesty, it's been long enough that I don't know if I can tell, reading silently, at least most of the...

It is important, when talking about the possibility of cats counting, to consider that we are talking about an animal that will carefully stalk and eagerly pounce upon a dustmop.

Not disagreeing, but again, that's a thing that might be at least less of a thing on the page.

The Dark Tower does have some real issues, I think being written piecemeal did it no favors--though I think watching the authorial voice evolve is a real pleasure. I do not think I've ever had any problem following any author's use of made-up words in fiction on the page; sometimes those words...

I've always understood that advice to be about sense, not repetitions--grammar errors will tend to jump out differently if you hear them than if you read them. I know that some authors shifted to unattributed dialogue after hearing how the dialogue tags jump out of audio (something that'll...

Authorial tics--and King does have some--stand out more in audiobooks. When I worked recording them, it was not unusual for us to make fun of books (or series) for things that repeated often. There was one series where the author was going for a character being the strong silent (or at least...

One of the few solid memories I have of reading it is, "Dear Gawd, they're singing again." So ... Sure, a musical.

Obviously rodentine, not necessarily verminous. Just saying. :LOL:

That seems like a thing one might consider putting inside a grilled cheese sandwich, dunnit? Just the pineapple and bacon/ham, I mean. I don't do grilled cheese as often as I used to, but I like me some meat inside (I've done some delicious things with Lebanon bllogna ...)

I actually timed them, like with a stopwatch. I could see being a couple seconds off, but even seventeen seconds seems like a lot of user error. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I remember messing around after hours in the studio I was working at, trying to make thirty-second things that sounded...

Huh. That was one of the ones I clocked at thirty seconds, when I did. Sixty seconds would be easier.

There's a local organic chain we go to that's similar. At one point, sometime around 2001, I clocked a bunch of the opening credits sequences for hour-long shows, and they were all like exactly 30 seconds. I remember seeing something much shorter shortly thereafter, I wouldn't be surprised if...

I can see going back to checkers being a loss-prevention thing, but most of the places around here that have self-checks, don't have them set up well for people to take carts through, so there's probably also some efficiency being lost, there. But yes, standing in line behind someone buying 107...

Unrelated to the above: I know I'm always going on (and on (and on)) about different media being different, but there are reasons TV show opening credit sequences are like thirty seconds.

Without having seen the article in question, it's worth remembering that much of what gets called "stoicism" these days has little to do with the Stoics--same as much of what gets called "cynicism" has next to nothing to do with the Cynics. I can see how someone might look at what gets called...

A couple years ago, my wife and I went to the Black Hills (among other places in South Dakota) and made a point to see as little of the Heads as we could. There was one (very nice) scenic drive that made it impossible, but other than that we managed to avoid all the defaced (heh) mountains in...

Unrelated to the above ... Somehow I don't think you actually agree with that. I'm pretty sure you don't understand it.

My own leanings are toward Dr Pepper, though either Pepsi or Coke will do in a pinch. :LOL:

There does seem to be something distinctly dude-ish about the obsessions among some fan-bros with peat levels (in ppm) or hoppy bitterness (in IBUs). That said, my own carbonated beverage of preference is a Zero, not a Diet, and I do feel as though it's a preference based on the actual taste/s...

Unrelated to the above ... I'm not the only one looking at that thread title and getting a strong whiff of J. Jonah Jameson, am I?