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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
cenwolfgirl:
--- Quote from: LDWriter2 on May 29, 2012, 01:03:03 AM ---You should be happy with yourself. Congrats. I didn't read back very far can I ask how long it is? But you should show it to someone, that is how you get feedback. And is one way writers can stick together by helping each other.
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um it is just over 1,600 words 1,700 ish
but its rely bad and i know its rely bad
but okay i might go find some one to tourcher with my first atempt at a short story at some point to dayy or tommorow
thank you
and good luck everyone
cenwolfgirl:
well i have finerly got back to my main project after yesterdays lack of success but now have writon anothe 200+ words ;D
LDWriter2:
--- Quote from: cenwolfgirl on May 29, 2012, 06:27:02 AM ---um it is just over 1,600 words 1,700 ish
but its rely bad and i know its rely bad
but okay i might go find some one to tourcher with my first atempt at a short story at some point to dayy or tommorow
thank you
and good luck everyone
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Finally got back to this sorry it took so long.
Number one: It's not up to you to decide if it's really bad or not. Yours is to do or die...oops I mean practice-practice and more practice. But and excuse me for saying it this way--but it might be rely bad as in awful or it could be your inner critic coming out to play but in either case having someone who sort of knows writing critique it is a good idea. That is one way you learn. There are online writing groups and critiquing groups if you don't know anyone.
cenwolfgirl:
--- Quote from: LDWriter2 on June 01, 2012, 03:50:01 AM ---Finally got back to this sorry it took so long.
Number one: It's not up to you to decide if it's really bad or not. Yours is to do or die...oops I mean practice-practice and more practice. But and excuse me for saying it this way--but it might be rely bad as in awful or it could be your inner critic coming out to play but in either case having someone who sort of knows writing critique it is a good idea. That is one way you learn. There are online writing groups and critiquing groups if you don't know anyone.
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fine i yeald i will go find so one to kill with this short story
but trust me it is teriable by almost every defonition of the word
or at least the ending is
Zuriel:
--- Quote from: cenwolfgirl on June 01, 2012, 06:37:14 AM ---fine i yeald i will go find so one to kill with this short story
but trust me it is teriable by almost every defonition of the word
or at least the ending is
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I started writing just for fun about a year and a half ago...just to see if I could do it, to get my head out of RL issues...and the more I wrote, the better I got - at least in my estimation. That first story, my longest, I'm still editing like crazy every chance I get and seems like it will never get completed. But my point is, keep plugging away at it. Leave it alone for a while, maybe a long while, and then go back and work on it. There's no real deadline, so take your time, develop it slowly. I found a book about writing science fiction and fantasy that had really good advice, but the thing that stuck out in my mind is how published authors go over and over and over their stories and that most of them agreed that you can't call yourself an author until you've written over a million words. So as LDWriter2 said, it's practice and practice - and then some more.
And endings are the hardest thing to do. Most authors agree on that, too. I was lucky when I had part one of my two-part story completed (and I've yet to decide how to end part two after all this time), I had some who was willing to read and critique the darn thing. She was very honest and gave me some super advice...and the one thing she stressed...be as hard on the characters as you possibly can. Jim's writing is a good example of that.
I go back and read short stories I wrote last year and they make me cringe. I've learned a lot since then. ;)
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