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Absolutely, and get your work edited as much as possible. You never know what’s wrong with your story until someone else tells you, but once you have heard the same thing several times, you start to break through the mental barriers and realize in clear terms exactly how you really should be writing.
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Two good bits of advice there. I can see a lot of the problems in my writing though. It’s particularly when you think it’s alright that you need someone to tell you what’s wrong with it.
Exactly.
So true @anna-brie. So true. I don’t know how many times I’ve written something that I think is so go only to have my mum or sister tell me is so uninteresting or not needed.
For me, I know it’s bad and I’ll have to try and fix it up later. I need need someone else’s opinion to convince me my first draft is terrible. But then I have had it confirmed when I read that every first draft is bad. And then it doesn’t bother me.
Tonight I was telling my little brother Bible stories, and he asked me to tell him Fiery Daniel. I told him that I didn’t know that story, so he informed me that it was a “very New Testament story.” Then he told it to me, and it was hilarious. I guess he got his Bible stories mixed up. Here it is:
“Daniel came to the prison where Peter was, and the soldiers captured Daniel, and threw him in. And Paul was very happy to see Peter. And there was a very big fiery earthquake, but the fire didn’t try to come in, because it was still. And the angel of the Lord came and took them out. And he saw that Peter was out of prison, so he took him, and put him back in.” “What happened after that?” “Nuffing.”
We laughed so hard at the ending. 🙂 Not bad for a first story.So cute, @sarah-h. Tell your little brother ‘well done.’
Has anyone here ever forgotten one of their own plot-twists? I don’t mean like it slipped your mind— I mean like you started it, then forgot about it?
Recently I was writing a very intense action scene, and when my sister read it she kinda looked at me funny, and pointed out that one of the characters involved had broken his arm a few chapters back… so I had to go back and make it so he hadn’t broken his arm. 😛 Yes, I’m that absentminded.Am I the only one who’s ever done something like that?
I’ll occasionally forget characters as I write. In my trilogy, there was one scene where I had a character in the room, and then when I picked up the scene in the next chapter I forgot he was there and left him out of the whole thing. 😉
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@hope I’ve had exactly the same problem. For my first book, I started out with seven sub-rulers in one of the fantasy kingdoms, but then I changed it to eight and gave them all new names. Believe me, the editing process got so messy after that; I once counted and found that there was an extra, ninth ruler running around and messing up my plot. Moral of the story: don’t do that.
In a scene just before the climax, a certain character said “Let’s go”. He has been mentioned once since then. (or twice if you count my note, “What happenend to Wil?”)
You guys ALL have my sincerest sympathy! 😛
Well, I’ve written 2500 of today’s 5000 words and am on here taking a quick break. 🙂 I’m writing 5000 words a day for five days (i.e. this week) so I can complete the rough draft of my novella. The story itself is going well, though sometimes I fear it may be a little slow. And writing is going well to, though there comes a point around the 2000-3000 that I just don’t want to look at a computer screen and think up things to type anymore. Who knew writing could be so mentally wearing?
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