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Originally Posted by Miss Information  Oh, seriously no editing? Whoops. I wrote my minimum goal yesterday 1800 words, then re-read and edited what I wrote. It wasn't bad to start with, but I left out some important stuff.
Anyone want a peek? I blogged a passage of it here. |
Not editing can be hard/ sometimes impossible like when you write a sentence a realize it made no sense.. the way I deal with them is insert the new sentence, idea or notes to myself in parenthesis, then highlight that part and change the font color so it will catch my eyes when I finally do go back and edit.. the benefit of doing it this way it you do not delete anything you wrote and therefore you do not lessen your word count! it also helps when you just can't think of something.. and sitting there trying to figure out the right word, or what exactly should be said, or done there would just stall the writing.. that is when I put Notes like "this character REALLY needs a name"; "add details here", or even "REALLY need to rewrite this to have it make sense." Once I've written my notes it frees me to move on with the story, knowing those things will be addressed in time, but for now I can keep being creative!
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Originally Posted by Miss Information I had some teachers (and commenters on my blog) tell me I am good, then that "real" writer tell me my characters were 2 dimensional and not believable (but did he tell me HOW to flesh them out? Of course not) and it helped to undermine my confidence.
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Fleshing out characters can be harder to explain without reading what you wrote, but for now I say keep writing...Try to show both the goods and bads of the main characters, their weaknesses, their strengthens and what they feel about things.. There will be times that you will have to figure for yourself and the reader, why they react they way they do to certain situations, did they have a bad experience in their past, do they have a weakness for speaking out before thinking about what they say and thus putting their foot in their mouth.. Were they overly criticized in the past, or overly praised. A lot of it is simply getting to know your characters, kind of the way you first get to know your friends.. Ask them questions about themselves.. if need be take the time to do a character sketch about your main characters (This CAN/should count towards your writing total for that day..even if it doesn't go directly in the story, because it will help you write your story)... Know that the more you write, the better you will become.. it's something that does take some practice..
Hope that helps a bit...
Kym
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that's what lack of inspiration gets you..
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