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September 2009
#3: Creating a Style Sheet
Note: The style sheet I'm referring to has nothing to do with the web coding trick called Cascading Style Sheets, Style Sheets, or CSS. Please do not confuse the two.
WHAT IS A STYLE SHEET?
#3: Creating a Writing Schedule
There’s no right or wrong way to write a story. Some authors only work on the weekends, some work any free second they get. The majority sets the same time or go by a daily word count goal to reach. Me, I’m a daily scribbler. I get out of sorts if I don’t write, so I don’t like to skip a day in my daily writing.
#2: Why Write Fanfiction?
Invariably throughout your writing life, someone sneers and says you shouldn't waste your time with something made up. (I think my life is scheduled to run into someone new with this opinion roughly every two years.) If you're not very good at shrugging these comments off, and when you're depressed over the state of your writing it can be nigh impossible, I find it helpful to examine why you do what you do when you can think clearly about the situation. One of my creative writing teachers said these thoughts should be put down in a credo and updated frequently.
#2: Building Good Sentences
Okay, there's no such thing as a "bad" sentence. Fragments are not sentences by definition, and run-on sentences are easy to fix. But a writer should be aware that depending too heavily on one type of sentence construction bores the reader. They'll call it bad writing, and that is what we don't want. Don't worry excessively about it, though. Revising sentences is an editing concern, but you should train yourself to recognize what you are using and how often you use it. It makes editing easier.
