Can you add to the list? Send me your contribution and I'll add it here! (jpg attachment in an email is groovy!)
From Sarah McGuire:
As you know, Bob highlights dialog info-dumps. For instance: "As you know, Bob, my life went down the crapper when the shark ate Marsha six years ago. I haven't been able to stay sober since."
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Catherine Misener:
I call it the 'don't quit your day job' symbol (one an agent might use when sifting through her inbox???)
From Steve Forti:
Stephen Kozeniewski offers alternate meanings. This cracked me up completely:
Bill Scott is on to your over-use of adverbs!
ohhhh---now this is not a note you want from your editor! (thanks to Laura!)
13 comments:
I love these! I really wish I had something to add, but after "insert under short leg of table" I can't really do any better.
I don't have anything to add to the symbols; however, I first saw this list a few days ago on a tumblr account I find amazing, and thought I'd share that. http://tkmbnd.tumblr.com/
Absolutely wonderful. Printing and posting where I write. Or don't write. While putting away my Pringles.
I wanna play! I wanna play! I just sent in my contribution.
I love these! (Good one, Catherine.) We use AYKB around here all the time for fun and frolic.
HA! Loving these!
Ummm...you're welcome? ;-)
I saw these a few days ago. I love the addition of 'as you know Bob!" Awesome.
I'm going to start drawing the mixed metaphor on papers even if there is no mixed metaphor. I just really like that drawing. What's better than a snake with a cat head?
I think AYKB needs to become part of the official list. :)
I wish I could come up with a clever scribble for "use SAID instead of exclaied, shouted, hissed, screamed, snarled, etc....) because that one needs a symbol too.
Great post, Janet!
Ha! I felt smart for knowing all the symbols in the first image, and then quite silly for laughing at everything else as much as I did. So clever!
These are great and even useful. lol So sharing these!!
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