Useful Links for Authors, Buffyverse Resources

[Thieving Magpie]

There are a two sites of which I think they might be incredibly usefull for authors:

Buffyverse Dialogue DataBase

This page is simply amazing, because you can easily do researches about: "who said what to whom and when"
No need to rewatch entire episodes anymore, not that we would mind of course, because the people over there wrote it all down and made it searchable.


BtVS Episode Guides and Transcripts
Another Page with the transcripts of all 144 Buffy episodes.

If you know more, feel free to add them.

[Thieving Magpie]

http://www.ressick.net/academy/mythology/part2.html

This link may not be that helpful, but it kind of defines the B/F ship realy nice. You have to scroll down a bit to find the Buffy/Faith part.

[KatZoom]

The Dialogue database is extremely helpful. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Rosemont]

I've found this website very helpful for grammar and punctuation, especially when writing dialogue.

The Grammar Wench

The Grammar Wench has some good advice about avoiding common "pratfalls" writers often fall into.

Here is one of my favorite tips. Over use of synonyms for the word "said" as in he said/she said is very common.

"Words like snarled, shouted, interjected, questioned, retorted, complained, and so on should be used in extreme moderation as speech tags. The theory behind this is that readers gloss over repeated occurrences of “said” and don’t equate it with a limited vocabulary."

Along the same lines, many authors tend to get too descriptive trying to not over use the simple tags "Faith" and "Buffy." Instead, saying things like, "the dark slayer" or "the petite blond", etc, etc. The authors fear is that simply using the name or she is too repetitive when in fact to do otherwise is very distracting to the reader. It adds a hitch to the sentence. Readers would much rather gloss over the simple name, the reading is so much smoother. As stated above regarding "said" readers do not equate it with limited vocabulary. Your storytelling will stand for itself without flowery descriptions.

So here is to Buffy and Faith and keeping it simple!

I hope this helps people, it helped me.