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March 2010
#9: Writing But Not Reading
Two fanfics writers I know admitted to me that they don't read fanfics. This is such an alien concept to me, I don't know what to make of it and started this post to work it out. Why am I so befuddled?
I don't expect anyone to read the crazy amount of stuff I do. I was reading by age four and reached college-level texts by fourth grade (my teacher for that grade complained about it to my mother at open house). I started writing the year after that. But reading has never stopped in the mean time.
#9: Cliches
I considered starting off this tutorial with all the grand oldies of cliché-dom. What better way to show you want something is than by using them? But then it doesn't make sense when the whole tutorial is about not using them.
In Writing Tutorial #14, the third strong prose tip was "No clichés."
#9: The Triage Technique
Until now, the Editing Lessons have reviewed the broader aspects of the editing and reviewing phase of story writing. Now we're going to take a story through the editing process, just like we took "Biker Mice From Mars: Domestic Bliss" from idea to finished product.
The Story
#9: Plot: Conflict and Scenes
You've got your road map for your story? Now you're ready to start planning conflicts, and from conflicts build scenes. I think in scenes when plotting out my stories; brainstorming until the entire work plays like a movie in my head. It happens almost automatically now, so if I miss something or have made things more confusing trying to explain, please let me know.
