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SuperheroMuses@LJ hat geschrieben:PD James is a mystery writer (and also a Baroness!) Her advice:
1. Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. The greater your vocabulary the more effective your writing. We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.
2. Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.
3. Don't just plan to write – write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.
4. Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.
5. Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
Der verbreitetste Glaube ist das Wissen.
Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate of the UK for a decade, and is also a novelist and biographer:
1 Decide when in the day (or night) it best suits you to write, and organise your life accordingly.
2 Think with your senses as well as your brain.
3 Honour the miraculousness of the ordinary.
4 Lock different characters/elements in a room and tell them to get on.
5 Write for tomorrow, not for today.
6 Work hard.
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#1 is nifty advice if you have the means and freedom to organize your life. Maybe true for someone ready to commit to a full-time writing career (if you're not willing to organize your life around writing then, why bother?) but for the casual writer...not so much, maybe.
#2 is always a tough one for me! I especially forget to put smell and taste into my stories. I've just started reading a cool book on perfumes just because it fascinates me to read people writing about scent vividly.
#4, if you insert a strategic "it" into the sentence, makes extra sense for a lot of fanfic.
#5 I don't know exactly what it means! I generally see myself as writing for today--that is, writing because it's what I'm enjoying doing right now, not because I hope to achieve some long-term goal. That might be another difference between pro writing and fanfic writing, though. I have the luxury of not needing long-term goals...
Magss
Der verbreitetste Glaube ist das Wissen.
Magss
Der verbreitetste Glaube ist das Wissen.
Kurt Vonnegut's Tips for Writing Fiction
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possible.
- Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
- Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
Der verbreitetste Glaube ist das Wissen.
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