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Biggest pet peeves?
honey:
--- Quote from: mare on April 10, 2007, 07:57:34 PM ---Congrats on writing your first story! And you know, I almost think everyone has done at least two of those things when writing their first story. The more you write, the better you'll get. As far as advice, Mel gave you some great ideas there. I agree with everything, most importantly, make sure you have a grasp on how you want the story to go before you move ahead. Nine out of ten times people don't complete their fiction is because they don't fully think it through. (Yes I made that statistic up lol but still...i'm sure there's some truth in that!)
Good luck and welcome to the club! :D
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hey Mare! Did you know that 96.8 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot? -lol
mare:
^ no, but four out of five dentists have mentioned that before! lol
moppy:
;D Thanks heaps Mel and Mare, given me heaps to think about for when I write.
I think I'll have to buy a notebook for all my ideas coz all the little scraps of paper I have floating around, over and covering my desk is getting intense.
Truthfully I'm not very good with words, pretty much can spell anything you give me without hesitation but make me spit out a sentence and I make Nick look like Enstein!
When I started my story it was a movie in my head and now I'm trying to write it out into a story which as you've read about makes it hard lol but I've kept all the words of wisdom I've read and hopefully my story can improve 10 fold!
@ Mellz - I'm the same with VC, when I read Flowers in the Attic for the first time it made me cry with what happened, all the hardships and heartbreak they went through, I wouldn't have blamed the brother, hormones are terrible especially during teenage years!
LOL you girls are a crack up ;D
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: moppy on April 10, 2007, 08:21:52 AM --- ??? Do the pet peeves count if your writing your first fan fic??
I've just started one and I believe I do at least half if not more of the peeves in my story.
I do read alot of fan fic and get ideas on how it's presented and grammar etc but I think my main problem is keeping a good flow to the story.
I tend to get an idea while I'm writing (I don't have a plot just basic ideas and try to fill in the gaps as I write) and mush it into the story and occasionally go off track.
What would be the best thing to help?
(little info, my brain has a huge imagination but it nevers sticks to an idea for long and I'll forget it unless I reread over my story to get back on track)
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Honestly, the best advice I could give you is to just keep writing. :) I think experience will definitely help with what you're struggling with. The more you write, the better you'll get, and the more aware you'll become of how to set up a story. It's hard to totally plan a story out before you write it - I use outlines, but I didn't always, and even now that I do, I still incorporate ideas I get as I'm writing the story. I can't possibly plan out every aspect ahead of time.
My other tip would be to try outlining. When you get an idea, try to plan the basic structure of the story - beginning, middle, and end - and then fill in the gaps as you come up with more ideas. But if you figure out where the story is going to go before you even start writing it, you'll always have some kind of road map to follow, and that will help you keep on track.
RokofAges75:
I left my post before I read the other replies, but it sounds like we're all on the same page with advice. :)
Moppy, another thing I was going to say is that I do all my outlines on the computer... I just start a Word document and keep a running outline going there. It's mostly just a list of events that I want to happen in the story and other notes for myself. It's nice to have it on the computer cause I can edit it all I want without it looking messy. The only bad thing is that if my computer would crash, it'd be gone. But so far I've managed to escape that happening while I'm actually writing the story.
Notebooks come in handy too though. I keep a little one around that I jot ideas down in when I don't feel like getting on my computer (like if I'm half-asleep in bed LOL).
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