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Question Hello! A wild dabbing penguin has appeared!
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5 years 10 months ago #6
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5 years 10 months ago #7
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5 years 10 months ago #10
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Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
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Welcome and enjoy!
You might notice many of the veterans watching you over the next little while... they like to see the expressions cross your face as you work your way through the canon.
With regards to your own writing... two bits of advice. Read all the things. Keep writing. Those two things will do you more good than any classes or workshops or whatever. Read everything you can get your hands on, different styles and genre, look for the common denominators in the things that you enjoy and that tell the sort of stories you most like to read about. And write often. Pick reasonable goals... don't try to write the great American (Australian) novel on your first go... write short stories, limit your word count and STILL get in all the most important details. It'll teach you to pick the right words and map them into a story with precision and you'll learn to end stories... a skill that many people fail to learn when they start out with episodic or novel sized work. As a result, we end up with lots of things without closure in online writing. But then keep writing.
Write a 1k word story. Set it aside for a little while and then come back to it and decide what you did right and what needs work. Then write the same story, with the goal of improving on the first time. Don't just edit it, but write it again fresh. Do that a couple times. Compare. We forget that long before we wrote stories, we told them... and we told them over and over, sometimes precisely the same but sometimes with different intentions as we taught the young, reminded the old, and otherwise used the wisdom of history to make a point. If you can work out your different ways of making different points with the same story, you'll be able to tell ANY story that you want with the right perspective for your audience to get.
Like reading a lot, writing a lot is a natural part of the process. I doubt there are many authors out there who haven't thrown away far more work than they've ever shared with other readers. It's not uncommon to 'decimate' our own work during the editorial process (in the literal sense of the word, destroying all but a tenth of it... ie reducing 100 pages to 10).. to clear out everything that is unneeded for telling the story at the heart of what you've written.
I'll look forward to you eventually sharing something with us. In the meantime, enjoy the reading!
You might notice many of the veterans watching you over the next little while... they like to see the expressions cross your face as you work your way through the canon.
With regards to your own writing... two bits of advice. Read all the things. Keep writing. Those two things will do you more good than any classes or workshops or whatever. Read everything you can get your hands on, different styles and genre, look for the common denominators in the things that you enjoy and that tell the sort of stories you most like to read about. And write often. Pick reasonable goals... don't try to write the great American (Australian) novel on your first go... write short stories, limit your word count and STILL get in all the most important details. It'll teach you to pick the right words and map them into a story with precision and you'll learn to end stories... a skill that many people fail to learn when they start out with episodic or novel sized work. As a result, we end up with lots of things without closure in online writing. But then keep writing.
Write a 1k word story. Set it aside for a little while and then come back to it and decide what you did right and what needs work. Then write the same story, with the goal of improving on the first time. Don't just edit it, but write it again fresh. Do that a couple times. Compare. We forget that long before we wrote stories, we told them... and we told them over and over, sometimes precisely the same but sometimes with different intentions as we taught the young, reminded the old, and otherwise used the wisdom of history to make a point. If you can work out your different ways of making different points with the same story, you'll be able to tell ANY story that you want with the right perspective for your audience to get.
Like reading a lot, writing a lot is a natural part of the process. I doubt there are many authors out there who haven't thrown away far more work than they've ever shared with other readers. It's not uncommon to 'decimate' our own work during the editorial process (in the literal sense of the word, destroying all but a tenth of it... ie reducing 100 pages to 10).. to clear out everything that is unneeded for telling the story at the heart of what you've written.
I'll look forward to you eventually sharing something with us. In the meantime, enjoy the reading!
Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
5 years 10 months ago #11
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5 years 10 months ago #15
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Don’t do that!
They might come back as cassowaries
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Dammnd Emus!Sir_Nil wrote: Yes, I do know a Shiela, unfortunately, Bruce died in the Emu Wars...
Don’t do that!
They might come back as cassowaries
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