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 Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:33 pm Post subject: What Is Your Favorite Writing Tip? |
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| What is the best writing tip you have ever received? |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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Don't stop.
OK not exactly a real one. Otherwise I'd say: "Realise that what may be obvious in your head is not necessarily so in everyone elses." |
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Actually, it's an acting tip, but of course it's applicable to writing, as it is to all art.
There is no such thing as a "character." It's about exposing yourself and all your imperfections in writing. You put all this stuff out in the open --these feelings -- and become vulnerable.
For instance, you don't write that a character is yelling because that is what the plot calls for. The character yells because I'm frustrated. You have to work yourself up about things. You have to relive rejection, failures, heartbreaks -- revisit pain and manifest this in the writing.
Same goes for every other emotion.
This tip is helping me to create some of the best writing I've ever had. |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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| You can only break the rules if you truly understand them in the first place. |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| 'For the love of God, check your spelling.' |
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"READ IT THROUGH FIRST! I DON'T WANT TO READ YOUR RAMBLING, QUICKLY SCRAWLED, AIMLESS RUBBISH!"
Yeah. That teacher had problems, but it's a good tip (I think  ).
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd have to say Nanowrimo taught me that you ARE allowed to write bad, so long as you get it written enough to salvage something later... |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| ^^I agree with Clau there. I used to throw a bunch of my stuff out because it didn't come out right the first few times. Now I have a million random little documents on my computer and little pieces of paper and small bits of poetry EVERYWHERE (see: Chem notebook + inspiration = bad Chem notes) but I never lose anything, and sometimes they turn into nice things. |
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When Philip Pullman (author of the His Dark Materials Trigoly, for those of you who live on Mars) is asked this question, his answer is invariably the same: [the isn't a quote, but it might as well be]
'Write what only you can write. Don't give in to trends and fashions, don't try to second-guess what a reader wants. Readers don't know what they want. So write what you can write'.
I follow that advice like a religion. Enough said. |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Hahaha... it's an acting tip, actually. Everybody contains every single character inside oneself. So writing becomes not a place for "character development" but rather self-reflection and analyzation. And EVERYBODY has experience variances of emotions to some extent or another. |
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| Lets see, out of them all, ADD MORE DETAIL. |
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My favorite writing tip...well...I have two.
One, keep as many notebooks as possible or any sort of paper in case inspiration arrives, and be detailed and use strong sensory language. |
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| Don't write what you know; write what you want to know. |
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Build up your story through research.
"A lot of amateur writers overlook that, but the real professionals, the ones who get the top honors and awards in writing fantasy and the like, are the ones who build the supernatural from the natural."
--Rain Gray. |
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"Good literature is character driven."
"Don't be a seat-of-the-pants writer." |
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