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ninjawolf:
Hello
I have written a few peses most kinder short
Working up to writing something longer at the moment
in a state of continues improvement ;)
Geekviking:
greetings peoples of the interwebs, tis I, Nik, ruler of far away undigitized lands.
the best way to describe myself I guess (in the context of this particular forum) is an aspiring writer, with firm emphasis on aspiring. I love stories, I love plot lines, I love seeing how characters work their way through their troubles like some sadistic god. I love watching a story weave its way in front of me whether it be a book, a movie, video game, graphic novel. Sadly my attempts at weaving my own story threads have left much to be desired. a few half hearted attempts at fanfiction and one piece of original fiction that I crafted when i was in high school and only recently remembered that I had. its on fictionpress if anyone wishes to gaze upon it (just ask and I will provide a link) but I wont torture the unwilling.
I am here to mostly gain inspiration from my fellow writers as a will to work and the focus to see my work through is something that I sorely lack and maybe, just maybe I might learn something too. anything is possible.
toodles :D
The Deposed King:
--- Quote from: Geekviking on August 01, 2013, 03:01:15 AM ---greetings peoples of the interwebs, tis I, Nik, ruler of far away undigitized lands.
the best way to describe myself I guess (in the context of this particular forum) is an aspiring writer, with firm emphasis on aspiring. I love stories, I love plot lines, I love seeing how characters work their way through their troubles like some sadistic god. I love watching a story weave its way in front of me whether it be a book, a movie, video game, graphic novel. Sadly my attempts at weaving my own story threads have left much to be desired. a few half hearted attempts at fanfiction and one piece of original fiction that I crafted when i was in high school and only recently remembered that I had. its on fictionpress if anyone wishes to gaze upon it (just ask and I will provide a link) but I wont torture the unwilling.
I am here to mostly gain inspiration from my fellow writers as a will to work and the focus to see my work through is something that I sorely lack and maybe, just maybe I might learn something too. anything is possible.
toodles :D
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Greetings young Earth-mod. This is your friendly neighborhood The Deposed King here to bestow tuppence upon the masses! I hear your struggles with writing and I empathize. I too was a struggling young writer who simply couldn't write.
I shall bestow upon you two of my favorite bits of fortune cookie wisdom. In secundus you must be aware that it takes many authors 4-6 full length books before the they are worthy of publishing. And In Primus the most important bit of wisdom I shall depart is also the most difficult and useless to thee. For it is this: you must give yourself permission to write the stink bomb. The words wafting off your pages will and must repulse you with every word you write. Yet without cease or fail you religiously return to pound out more onto your word processor. You must solemly vow to never go back, never edit, never delete! These words until you reach the end of your manuscript (that way when you do go back to work on stuff before you're done, you are 'sneaking' around for a few words instead of giving yourself permission to look at how terrible the stuff is) .
Then an Geekviking a Jedi-writer will you be!
The Deposed King
Anei:
--- Quote from: The Deposed King on August 01, 2013, 04:47:32 AM ---And In Primus the most important bit of wisdom I shall depart is also the most difficult and useless to thee. For it is this: you must give yourself permission to write the stink bomb. The words wafting off your pages will and must repulse you with every word you write. Yet without cease or fail you religiously return to pound out more onto your word processor. You must solemly vow to never go back, never edit, never delete! These words until you reach the end of your manuscript (that way when you do go back to work on stuff before you're done, you are 'sneaking' around for a few words instead of giving yourself permission to look at how terrible the stuff is) .
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I've heard this, in variation, from at least a dozen different writers and teachers, and still I can't seem to force myself to live by it. I have a hard time not getting bored with my own crap writing long enough to turn it into something useful.
Paynesgrey:
"An' you best take them as preachin' words!"--Finnienne Fenn Finnegan
That first pass is going to be drek. You're just getting the story-- ideas of scenes, sketches of conversations down on paper. I've come to accept it. It's the second or third pass where you'll be able to look at those cludgey paragraphs or jumbled sentences, and distill from them the line that really snaps and sings. Those redundant lines, the cludgey bouts of exposition serve a purpose. They're raw materials, like ore or an over-saturated solution that the clarified idea emerges from.
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