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Friday, April 20, 2012
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Long Answer to Tumblr Question
You can call me Lucy, and I will call you Chuck. And whenever you try to kick a football, I'll yank it out from under you. ;D That's a Charlie Brown reference, BTW. I sometimes feel like I'm the oldest person on tumblr (though I'm not old at all), so I never know if someone will catch my references. And I'm glad, flattered, grateful, and completely shocked that you like the blog and the writing.
As to your first question, the story I'm most proud of is "How Sherlock Learned to Love the Dog Tags." I don't know that it's really my best story, but I feel it's more like how I want to write and less like how I think I should write.
As for my tips, sweet jeebus, you're probably asking the wrong person as I've only been writing fiction for a few months. This is a whole new ballgame for me. But the best piece of advice I've gotten from another writer is to just sit down and put your idea on the paper. It doesn't matter if it's a jumbled mess at first. Everything else, from punctuation to grammar to basic continuity, can be added or corrected later. Just get the transfer of that initial idea from your brain to the paper or computer completed.
Other than that, I don't know that I would call these tips, but I have discovered a couple of things about how I have to write. First, I have to have a plan/plot for the story in mind. I cannot just write on the fly. I've seen other people say, "I don't know where this piece is going," and things like that. I tried that once, and it was a freaking disaster that has been banished to the wastelands of my hard drive. I actually make a brief informal outline so I can keep myself on track if it's a longish story.
Second, and much more important, it's really good for me to set aside a story for a little while then revisit it before I call it finished. I do better to write something, fiddle with it until I'm fairly satisfied, leave it alone for at least 24 hours (longer is better), then go back and take a fresh look. It helps me to catch typos and other mistakes, but it's much more than that. When I'm writing I have a very clear picture in my head of exactly what's going on (a bit like a movie in my head), but a little time away helps that picture to fade a bit. Losing some of that clarity helps me to then re-read the story with an eye to making sure that a reader who obviously can't see the tv in my brain could actually still follow the story. That's pretty much all I've got in the way of advice. Now I have a question for you, are you a writer yourself?
As to your first question, the story I'm most proud of is "How Sherlock Learned to Love the Dog Tags." I don't know that it's really my best story, but I feel it's more like how I want to write and less like how I think I should write.
As for my tips, sweet jeebus, you're probably asking the wrong person as I've only been writing fiction for a few months. This is a whole new ballgame for me. But the best piece of advice I've gotten from another writer is to just sit down and put your idea on the paper. It doesn't matter if it's a jumbled mess at first. Everything else, from punctuation to grammar to basic continuity, can be added or corrected later. Just get the transfer of that initial idea from your brain to the paper or computer completed.
Other than that, I don't know that I would call these tips, but I have discovered a couple of things about how I have to write. First, I have to have a plan/plot for the story in mind. I cannot just write on the fly. I've seen other people say, "I don't know where this piece is going," and things like that. I tried that once, and it was a freaking disaster that has been banished to the wastelands of my hard drive. I actually make a brief informal outline so I can keep myself on track if it's a longish story.
Second, and much more important, it's really good for me to set aside a story for a little while then revisit it before I call it finished. I do better to write something, fiddle with it until I'm fairly satisfied, leave it alone for at least 24 hours (longer is better), then go back and take a fresh look. It helps me to catch typos and other mistakes, but it's much more than that. When I'm writing I have a very clear picture in my head of exactly what's going on (a bit like a movie in my head), but a little time away helps that picture to fade a bit. Losing some of that clarity helps me to then re-read the story with an eye to making sure that a reader who obviously can't see the tv in my brain could actually still follow the story. That's pretty much all I've got in the way of advice. Now I have a question for you, are you a writer yourself?
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