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@jenwriter17 I’ll join you! Whatcha working on?
@waterlily Awesome! 🙂
I’m working on my dystopian WIP. How about you?
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@jenwriter17 I’m writing a YouTube video. (It’s still writing!)
@waterlily Haha, you’re watching a Youtube video? 😉
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@jenwriter17 Lol–I was before I started writing one.
@waterlily Sorry, but I have to leave now 🙁
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@jenwriter17 Okay, bye. I gotta get off too.
Sorry for vanishing again but that’s what happens when I write in the dead of the night. Hope you enjoyed yourself watching Newsies! I’ll put my answers to your questions here so that you can see them when you return.
If you are finding your bridge sections boring, chances are your readers will as well. Reconsider the necessity of these sections because scenes with obvious drama and importance should not be boring you. If there is nothing important or if what is happening is predictable (e.g. Chara was brought to the paramedics so they must have treated her), sum it up in a few lines or skip it (“The paramedics told her that she was lucky to only get heat exhaustion and that she was young and healthy. After resting for a while inside the air-conditioned vehicle and being given lots of fluids to rehydrate…”).
For me, I am struggling with filling in this gaping hole in the middle of one of my chapters. There were details that had to be conveyed for some reason (aka foreshadowing) but writing those scenes was boring because my MC did not really have a goal in the scene (she was listening and watching other characters establish themselves since it was the early part of the novel). So what I am trying to do is to make those scenes more interesting by giving my MC more involvement and some stake in it, however small, so that she has a goal.
As for how I fell in love with my characters… Well, the thing about writing a parody is that it requires a certain willingness to create very silly, annoying and unlovable characters. But even so I try to give all my characters depth so most of them have strangely grown on me. What makes me love a character is whether I find them exciting to write, whether they can surprise me and make me laugh. So if I have lots of great or humorous moments planned for a certain character, I would look forward to writing those parts and come to love that character a lot.
@waterlily oh, by the way, what do you mean you were writing a video? Do you have a Youtube channel?
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@rochellaine And it was good, yes?
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@seekjustice And it was good, yes. 😀
It was amazing! Really fun. Great actors/singers/dancers. My favorites were Crutchie, Jack, and Mr. Pulitzer, in that order. (I have to include Mr. Pulitzer especially because he was our waiter. It was a dinner theater, remember? But he was great in his part as well.)
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Awesome!! *tries harder not to be jealous* I love the fact that Mr Pulitzer was your waiter!
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@seekjustice 😛 It was really funny, because they give out the tip trays before the show starts, and you don’t know who is playing what, since they’re all in their waiter uniforms. So my dad left him a big tip because he was a good waiter, and then he got it during intermission, and came back to thank my dad. My dad teased him that he didn’t know he was the bad guy when he left the tip, and he teased back that he never told anyone he was the bad guy beforehand because it would mess up his tips. 😉
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Ha! Did you know that I was researching American culture the other day for my novel and I was reading about tips. We don’t give tips in Australia. Just a curious thing I learned.
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