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| AGREED. by Alternate789 08/21/2003, 12:06pm PDT | ||||
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| Look, mrs.j, a good writer is determined as such by his/her ability to tell a story. You seem to focus on style alone, which is just self-satisifying wankery and doesn't make you a better storyteller. Don't have any stories to tell? They don't have to be complicated murder mystery spy intrigue international terrorist plots, just make them be about normal, boring people. As long as they have some sort of an arc it should be okay. I guess you'll know you've won when you can make the aformentioned boring characters interesting and distinct.
I've been writing and re-writing the same story for months now, taking a stab every week or so. I've tried it in past tense, present, first-person, third-person; style doesn't matter. It can liven up an already good story (i.e. Pynchon) but until then is just dead weight. And at the end of every week I delete it because no matter how much I like parts of the style it just drags and plods and I don't give a shit about the characters. If you can make conscious decisions about the narrative and pacing of your story, slowing it down to build tension, speeding it up for excitement, then congratulations! you're a writer. |
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Second Note from the Recorder by 08/21/2003, 2:31am PDT  It's so boring and pointless. ;_; by 08/21/2003, 4:28am PDT AGREED. by 08/21/2003, 12:06pm PDT Thank you for the suggestions. NT by 08/21/2003, 12:21pm PDT Re: AGREED. by 08/21/2003, 1:20pm PDT Happy to be your target. NT by 08/21/2003, 1:22pm PDT |
