Whole-heartedly BEGGING writers to unlearn everything schools taught you lot nearly how long a paragraph is. If theres a new subject, INCLUDING ACTIONS, theres a new paragraph. A paragraph can exist a single word too btw stop making things unreadable
Ok And so I'thousand getting more notes than I thought quicker than I expected! And then I'm gonna elaborate bc I want to.
I get information technology, when you're someone who writes a lot and talks a lot, it's hard to continue things readable, but information technology'due south not as much well-nigh cutting out the fat(that can be a trouble) so much as a formatting issue.
You are also actively NERFING yourself past non formatting information technology correctly, information technology can brand impactful scenes feel so, so much better. Compare this,
To THIS.
Easier to read, and hits harder.
No more over-saturated paragraphs. Space things out.
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ashelyskies:
silverjirachi:
please cease tagging characters that only appear in your fic for one 2d please stop tagging characters that only appear in your fic for ane second please finish tagging characters that only appear in your fic for one 2nd please stop tagging characters that only announced in your fic for ane second please terminate tagging characters that only appear in your fic for one second please stop tagging characters that merely appear in your fic for one second please stop tagging characters that simply appear in your fic for one second please stop tagging characters that only announced in your fic for one 2d please finish
Ive seen people utilise this every bit the dominion of thumb and I similar information technology and so im gonna pass it along:
When tagging a character, enquire yourself "if i was reading this fic Only for this character and no 1 else, would I be happy I spent my time on it?" And if the answer is no, then don't tag the character.
I've been guilty of this in the past too, I get how like shooting fish in a barrel information technology is to fall into the super thorough tagging mistake, but I hope you as someone who tends to savor niche characters its absolutely infuriating when like two thirds of the fics tagged with a character finish upwardly either non having the character relevant for more than than like a single chapter (in 5+ chapter works) or every bit a third character.
This especially goes for people making huge multichapter assorted smutfics all crammed into one fic. Someone super into a character isn't gonna leap at the chance to read your OC or any character you've appointed "harem king" plowing their fave for 6 words before moving down the line.
Tag your main characters, and that's it. If a character is a secondary graphic symbol its a judgement call yous need to think nigh. Third or further? Don't tag them. If they're one of similar ten or more characters simply there to fulfil the genre? Don't tag them.
Unnecessarily tagged characters absolutely clogs the search and makes the tagging role basically useless.
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wingardium-letmefuckyou:
mikeyshackwriting:
I saw a mail talking about how Terry Pratchett just wrote 400 words a 24-hour interval, how that goal helped him write literally dozens of books before he died. So I reduced my own daily word goal. I went downwards from 1,000 to 200. With that 800-word wall taken downward, I've been writing more. "I won't get on tumblr/watch Tv/draw/read until I hit my word goal" used to be something I said as self-restraint. And when I inevitably couldn't coughing up iv pages in one sitting, I felt like garbage, and the pleasurable hobbies I had planned on felt like I was cheating myself when I just gave upwards. Now it's something I say because I simply have to stop this scene, but accept to circular out this conversation, can't stop now, because I'm enjoyingmyself, I'm having an amazing time writing. Something that hasn't been truthful of my original works since middle school.
And sometimes I call up, "Well, two hundred is technically less than four hundred." And I take to stop myself, considering - I am writing half as much as Terry Pratchett. Terry fucking Pratchett, who not merely published regularly up until his expiry, but published books that were consistently expert.
And this has also been an immense assistance as a author with ADHD, because I don't feel bad when I take a suspension from writing - two hundred words works up quick, after all. If I take a pause at 150, I have a whole 24-hour interval to write 50 more than words, and I've rarely written less than 200 words and non felt the demand to keep writing because I need to tie up a loose end anyways.
Yes, sometimes, I do not produce a single affair worth keeping in those two hundred words. Only information technology'due south much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all.
This is the second fourth dimension this mail passes on my dash and it's the all-time advice I ever got. I can't write consistently in one go, information technology's always nigh 50 words and so I become distracted and merely have to do something else for a while. Do the math quickly: trying to write 2000 words a day takes a looooong time that way. So in that location were many days where I simply didn't even commencement writing, cause I wouldn't accomplish my goal anyways and feel like a failure. Then I stumbled upon this post and I thought: hey, permit'south requite this a try. And information technology works! I fix my goal between 200-400 words a day and that's perfectly doable. Some days I go into the catamenia and I write a whole lot more than. On other days, I struggle to go those 200 out but hey, at least I wrote 200 words and reached my goal. Whatever the outcome, t makes me experience good and achieved.
Writing takes practice, so even if it's only 100 words a day, it'due south ameliorate than nothing. If information technology worked for Terry Pratchett and me, than it tin work for you lot too!
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katherine-rose:
pyrogavinofree:
writing-prompt-s:
writer-wannabe-needs-inspiration:
writing-prompt-s:
maxkirin:
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Assassins
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So inexpensive! I always idea things like this would cost more than $1 1000000…
This is super useful to know!
and not just for writing!!
@katherine-rose
HOLY FUCK
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Aye, I do teach creative writing: your opening scene
heywriters:
underhillwriter:
The opening scene is the most important piece of your novel. This scene determines whether your reader is pulled in or puts the volume downwards. Here are some important do'due south and don'ts.
Do write it every bit a scene, not a data dump. You lot may have a fantastic premise, a marvelous alternating history or postal service-apocalyptic world or magical realism to die for, but if y'all don't engage your reader in an bodily scene, y'all will bore them.
DO write a scene that immediately introduces a character that the reader tin root for. Yeah, I know Stephen King has had peachy success introducing victims that are and then soon after killed off. That's a horror trope and we expect it. Just if you are caught upward in earth-building and haven't dreamed your mode into a character who is worth following through 100,000 words of writing, your story is pointless. I have read many pieces of fiction past would-exist writers who can't grasp this essential concept, and without exception, they neglect to appoint the reader.
Practice introduce the stakes right abroad. In example that'southward a challenge that needs some exposition to develop, create some immediate stakes (a life threat works) that keep the tension high and the reader engaged until you can lay out the larger stakes.
DO begin in medias res, which ways "in the middle of things." Most offset fiction writers brand the mistake of starting besides early in the plot. Meet the monster on page 1.
DON'T include a flashback in the beginning chapter. Work on a scene, which ways time is NOT compressed. It should include dialog, activity, clarification, setting, and interior monolog. Go on everything happening within that scene for at least the first chapter. Y'all can bring in a flashback in Chapter Iii.
DON'T shift points of view within a unmarried chapter. Let the reader establish a strong bond of interest (even if information technology's with a POV villain) over the grade of a whole chapter.
DON'T open up the story with your grapheme waking upwards unless it's considering she's got a gun in her face up (or a knife to her pharynx – y'all become what I mean). We don't need to follow a character through their mundane daily routine.
DON'T be coy. Beginning writers oft have this idea that they need to hold back on revealing all their secrets – what's in the box, who's backside the pall, where they're going side by side, etc. Their well-meant plan is to slowly reveal all this over several chapters. Trust me on this one: tell your readers instead of keeping it a mystery. You WILL come up with more secrets to reveal. Your imagination is that good. Spill it at present, and permit that revelation to add together to the excitement.
@coffeerebagels And so, should I brand my character literally meet the monster at page one
Funny, that's the role I call up from this too.
You can.
You lot don't have to.
The monster tin can be figurative and not yet full-grown.
@tygermine I like starting my stories in the middle of a conversation
Do information technology, bruh. Merely make sure it's the right "middle" of the right conversation.
Tbh, these "dos and don'ts" are niggling more than expert suggestions because many skilful books don't starting time out with all of these. Some good books follow some of these suggestions very well! Some genres practically require them! Only not all stories need to apply every writing "rule" perfectly, information technology'southward incommunicable.
Only, when you lot pick upwardly a "bad" volume with a lame kickoff, information technology probably needed to follow a few of these and would've turned out much ameliorate.
If your kickoff needs aidconsider these suggestions. If your beginning is doing just fine, you feel, go on these adept suggestions around for the next book.
Not following these suggestions does non make information technology a bad scene/book.
Not following these suggestions does not ensure readers drop your volume.
Not following these suggestions does not mean you're a bad/lazy writer.
Write what you like, but when you lot're editing/revising, take out this list and consider which suggestions your opening scene might do good from.
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skeleton-richard:
werecat:
pigmenting:
hitch your heart to one small thing
reminds me of this!
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Writer Beware
the-right-writing:
the-right-writing:
Writer Beware makes posts on which publishing houses to avoid at all costs, which words to look for and which words to lookout man out for in contracts, and several other things that will go along you in command and knowledgeable about the publishing process. I'd suggest reading through the website if you desire to avoid getting ripped off, cheated, or scammed.
I'chiliad just going to reblog this every so ofttimes considering it's a site that every writer needs to come across.
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tarysande:
dynamicsymmetry:
Skilful stuff.
Guys, I edit professionally. This list is legit. Incorporating these suggestions before you hire an editor will save yous A LOT of money. Fifty-fifty if yous did these and aught else, you'd see significant overall improvement in your work.
That said, y'all don't have to overthink these things when you lot're writing a first typhoon. If you write, "she said angrily" in a first draft, yous can always revisit the phrasing in a 2d draft. I mention this because overthinking style can lead to a loss of momentum, and losing momentum is why so many people never finish a draft. Give yourself permission to write fast, write messy or ugly, and edit your draft into beauty subsequently.
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smileslikeparentheses:
y'all-had-me-at-e-flat-major:
directordanic:
superlockedhogwartianinthetardis:
keepcalm-andpartyyon:
A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drinkable and and so leaves.
A question mark walks into a bar?
2 quotation marks "Walk into" a bar.
A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to beverage.
The bar was walked into past a passive vocalization.
Iii intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They go out.
THANKS FOR TEACHING ME THINGS THAT ENGLISH CLASS HAS FAILED TO Acknowledge
More, delight.
An Oxford comma walks into a bar. It orders a pint of beer, some snacks, and a shot.
A split infinitive used to ofttimes walk into a bar.
There is a bar which a preposition-ended judgement walked into.
An emphatic copula did walk into a bar.
A present subjunctive walked into a bar hoping that he be able to guild a drink.
A typo walks into a bra
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madelynlrogers-weblog asked: Hullo, I'm a immature writer who published a volume of poetry back in February and I wanted your communication on something given that you lot are the writer I admire most. People are always telling me how much they love my writing, I have had people who accept a masters in artistic writing tell me that they love it, but every time I expect at whatsoever of my writing I just detest it so much that I just want to rip it to shreds. Do you lot have advice on how to get over that?
neil-gaiman:
Keep writing, with the certainty that if you lot keep writing y'all will get there eventually. View a collection of poetry as a snapshot of who you were when you lot wrote information technology and of what y'all wrote at a specific time, rather than as dandy and enduring and perfect art.
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