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Post by downrightdude on Aug 14, 2017 0:09:25 GMT -5
I'm at the halfway point of my new series!
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Post by June Scarlet on Aug 23, 2017 10:05:12 GMT -5
Okay, so I like to watch Youtube videos while I'm doing things like washing the dishes. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a video or video series about writing. I'm particularly interested in the publishing aspect, not just general writing tips. Very particular children's stuff, and illustration, and comics, but that's such a narrow field I'd probably get few recommendations at all.
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Post by Breakingchains on Aug 27, 2017 17:23:26 GMT -5
Oddly enough I can't actually think of any writing-related channels I could recommend. I've found a couple here and there but none of them actually good. So I've had this novel idea on the back burner for a while, and I think 90% of the reason I haven't actually started on it yet is because the rules of the magic system form the entire backbone of the plot, and if at any point they contradict, stop making sense or aren't properly foreshadowed, the entire book will fail. xD; Why can't I write a nice, normal, simple project? Ever??
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Post by patriciagwen on Aug 28, 2017 12:11:22 GMT -5
June Scarlet Here's a link to a good illustration channel, "Holly Exley": www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqRm6IuUKtMShe's British, gives good tips, draws amazing sketches of food for paying clients and her pet bunny died Also, here's a link to Grace ("TexaninToyko") who published comics about funny jokes/daily life with her Japanese husband lol. She chose the self-publishing route, and her comics were sold on Etsy - not sure if they still are: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-u6LSgRxPkEnjoy I watch too much YouTube for my own good lol
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Post by June Scarlet on Sept 5, 2017 18:44:54 GMT -5
Oh my goodness. I just wrote an entire short story for the Times in an afternoon. For reference, my last (and only other) short story for the Times took months for me to complete. I'm a terribly slow writer, and it's hard for me to compose my thoughts into prose.
I suspect that all this Wrighton writing has given my prose writing ability a big boost.
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Post by downrightdude on Sept 6, 2017 15:38:42 GMT -5
Almost done part 8!
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Post by Moni on Oct 1, 2017 1:47:28 GMT -5
Hmm, it's a real shame this thread isn't more active, because a forum is almost the ideal place to discuss writing... at all, really. IMs don't really work, not in my experience, but... eh.
Anyway, I've got a question for y'all. If you feel like you're basically at an impasse with your writing but you don't know how exactly to improve it now, what in the world do you do? >>
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Post by Breakingchains on Oct 1, 2017 9:24:46 GMT -5
Moni : I like to go back to the writings of my favorite influences and see what they have to say on the topic. Failing that, getting another pair of eyes to look my work over can really unstick my brain. What is it you feel like you're having trouble with?
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Post by Moni on Oct 1, 2017 17:18:54 GMT -5
Breakingchains Um... I don't really know if I can point at anybody who "influenced" me without readily trashing their work by association, but like... my favorite authors tend to be people like George Eliot, Honoré de Balzac (really), and Joseph Heller, and whenever I look at their work it seems that they all have really thoughtful and sometimes trenchant remarks about the characters they describe. I... do not do that. I can't really draw characters or settings or events so cleanly. To me, events in the world (and to a certain extent, people), are blurred blobs that vaguely interact with each other and are so nebulous as to defy explanation. Which makes me wonder sometimes if I fundementally experience the world in a different way than other people, because I make no sense when I say stuff like that. (/existential moment) Mostly, it's just... my writing seems to be overly segmented; there's no clean flow to any of it, and it feels like that when I'm writing too. Like, there's no glue and there's no flow (ripped from my junior French lit teacher: "you have decent ideas but can't put them together, there's no flow"). It seems like it's just an endless [action][descriptor][action][descriptor] chain that's assembled only at the very micro level. If that makes any sort of sense. x)
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Post by downrightdude on Oct 1, 2017 23:02:18 GMT -5
*needs to start part 11*
D: Chocolate, be my strength!
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Post by Breakingchains on Oct 2, 2017 19:43:48 GMT -5
I... do not do that. I can't really draw characters or settings or events so cleanly. To me, events in the world (and to a certain extent, people), are blurred blobs that vaguely interact with each other and are so nebulous as to defy explanation. Which makes me wonder sometimes if I fundementally experience the world in a different way than other people, because I make no sense when I say stuff like that. (/existential moment) Mostly, it's just... my writing seems to be overly segmented; there's no clean flow to any of it, and it feels like that when I'm writing too. Like, there's no glue and there's no flow (ripped from my junior French lit teacher: "you have decent ideas but can't put them together, there's no flow"). It seems like it's just an endless [action][descriptor][action][descriptor] chain that's assembled only at the very micro level. If that makes any sort of sense. x) When you say there's no flow, though, do you mean within scenes, or between scenes? Like do you mean the immediate happenings onscreen feel choppy, or is this something that's only apparent when you consider how the entire work is fitting (or in this case, not fitting) together? I could be totally off-base, but if it's the former, my first inclination would be to say it's just a prose problem (generally the easiest kind of issue to spot and therefore easiest to fix). Whereas the latter might be more of an issue with your planning, your process, or your understanding of plot structure, which are all things that can be learned but are generally harder to pin down and identify clearly. (Sorry if I'm bombarding you with questions that make no sense, I'm just big on writing theory and I like to blather on about it. XD)
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Post by Moni on Oct 3, 2017 0:22:56 GMT -5
When you say there's no flow, though, do you mean within scenes, or between scenes? Like do you mean the immediate happenings onscreen feel choppy, or is this something that's only apparent when you consider how the entire work is fitting (or in this case, not fitting) together? I could be totally off-base, but if it's the former, my first inclination would be to say it's just a prose problem (generally the easiest kind of issue to spot and therefore easiest to fix). Whereas the latter might be more of an issue with your planning, your process, or your understanding of plot structure, which are all things that can be learned but are generally harder to pin down and identify clearly. (Sorry if I'm bombarding you with questions that make no sense, I'm just big on writing theory and I like to blather on about it. XD) Really? Most of the time I find large-scale issues to be the easiest to fix and prose problems to be the hardest to fix. Large-scale problems, you can just... not do the thing that's causing the problem, whereas for me there's so many subtle things in prose it's like "aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh." Which, don't get me wrong, there's a lot of things wrong with my process, planning, *and* my understanding of plot structure, but I'm not really as miffed with the macro-levels of my stories (mostly because they're non-existent BAM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States) as the micro levels of my prose. Within scenes is really rough for me... but I have no idea why. In editing, at least, I manage to root out most of the "rookie mistakes" or basically the mistakes everyone drills and points out, but after that there's just a disconnect/choppiness between one sentence and the next that I'm not really sure how to resolve.
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Post by downrightdude on Oct 14, 2017 0:51:14 GMT -5
FINALLY FINISHED AND SENT NEW SERIES!!
Now I can relax and think about muffins.
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Post by Cal on Oct 15, 2017 7:52:07 GMT -5
I didn't previously post on here, but I just wanted to say I finished my series. In like, a couple of days. This series is going to be garbage but I can't stand to edit it yet
final verdict: sending the first draft into the nt and seeing if i can muster the energy to edit tomorrow
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Post by downrightdude on Oct 31, 2017 0:48:41 GMT -5
Started new series today!
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