Symptoms |
Cause |
First aid |
- Writing
is not taken seriously by audience
- Hard
to read over
- Scattered
lowercase ‘i’
- Looks
messy
|
Poor basic
grammar
(Bad hygiene ) |
- General
hygiene should be observed at all times including in most poetry.
- Capitalize
‘I’, proper nouns (names) and beginning of sentences.
- Add
full stops.
- Fix
the “there, their and they’re” and the “witch, which”
- Even
when good hygiene has not been practiced, as long as an infection has
not set in, it is easily rectifiable with a good scrub.
|
- Dialog
is not working
- Dialog
feels flat and formal
|
Dialog is
not written as people speak.
(snake bite) |
- Apply
compression bandage and condense what your character has to say.
- Drop
‘ums, heys, and uh?s’ or relevant slang into speech.
- Identify
type of snake by eavesdropping on conversations and writing what is
spoken in real time. Observe differences between people and the
disregard for full sentences. Adjust your writing accordingly.
- Call
ambulance and read out loud what you have written, preferably to someone
else.
- Add
body language text.
|
- Reading
is boring
- Nothing
is happening
- Or
too much is happening and it does not make sense
|
Too much
or not enough description or action.
(vitamin imbalance) |
- If
deficiency is not immediately evident, track diet, highlight adjectives
blue, nouns yellow and verbs in pink. Try to create a balance of the
three.
- When
writing add action to your descriptions and descriptions around your
actions.
|
- Looks
like one big mass of words
- Heard
to read
- Hard
to read out loud and breathe properly
|
No
formatting
(asthma attack) |
- Give
space and separate into relevant paragraphs by topic or sub scene.
- Give
puffer and shorten sentences with too many clauses.
- If
not breathing properly within five minutes call emergency. Add commas
where ever you breathe, when reading out loud.
|
- Repeats
of the same word within same paragraph.
- I’ve
read this before feel
- Sense
of this is boring.
|
Over use
of same word
(ticks and splinters) |
- After going outside, read it over, search for repeated words, and
underline them.
- Look
up in first aid book and find the word in the thesaurus section. Remove
with tweezers and apply cream.
- Splinters
and tick bights swell slightly to create red areas after a few hours. So
save your reread till the following day if you can’t spot anything wrong
straight after writing it.
|
|
Words used
to rhyme are inappropriate to poem/lyrics theme.
(Sprained or broken ankle) |
- Leave
for a few days to see if it fixes itself.
- Do gentle stretches; use the thesaurus to find
words that are easier to rhyme or make more sense in context.
- If
stretches do not cure sprain, the ankle may be broken and require an
operation to change the rhyming pattern. Most commonly this operation
from an a, a, b, b pattern to an a, b, a, b one.
|
- Characters
are “boring”
- You
can’t tell the characters apart
|
Characters
all have the same personality. Or are too similar in another way.
(concussion) |
- When
character comes to start by asking simple questions about their hobbies/personality. Compile answers into a character profile. In it decide what the character’s
personality is, some history and their likes/dislikes. Refer to profiles
when writing to see how they would react to the circumstances.
- Ensure
each of your characters names are different enough.
|
- You
don’t like it (without reason)
|
Matter of
opinion
(flu) |
- Wait
a few days and see if the sniffles pass.
- If
still persists see doctor to diagnose what is actually wrong.
|
- Story
does not make sense
- Audience
needs to look up words.
|
Terms used
are not understandable by audience (laryngitis) |
- Explain
by showing the definitions of terms as in terraformed. It hasn’t been
terraformed yet, because it takes ages for a planet to be made
habitable.
- Have
one character who does not know much about the subject so that it can be
explained to that character.
- Add a
glossary or asterix potentially complicated words.
|
- Boring
to read
- Paragraphs
looking suspiciously like info dumps
|
telling
and not showing
(Burn) |
- Apply
water to area and run for 30 minutes until all telling is washed away.
- Write
an alternative scene where you show the facts from the info dump
happening. Eg “she was sun burnt from being at the beach.” Becomes. “She
climbed into the car brushing the sand from her feet. Her swimmers were
already dry from heat and her arms and face, bright red and staring to
peel.”
- In
severe cases an operation may be needed. Research in to how to proceed
is advised. see http://www.dailywritingtips.com/show-dont-tell/
or other relevant site.
|
- Red
lines throughout document.
- Hand
written
- Having
to “work out” some of the words
|
Spelling
errors
(Head lice) |
- Apply
head lice spray in the form of a spell checker.
- Run
through with a fine comb to catch any reminders.
- For
the hard to remove ones, which do not show up on word, a google search
may help
- Repeat
regularly until itching stops.
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