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Been doing some studies
9 months ago
I've been wanting to take my writing to the next level. So lately I'm interested in word choice, the ordering of particular sentences, phrasing, so on. I'd like to refine some stuff and work on the sense of flow. I honestly don't really do weird alternative format jumbled-order type stuff, so I'm not that interested in playing around with order of events or that larger-picture stuff. Usually I write in one go, and leave a kind of 'bookmark' by stopping where it makes sense for the given session, and where it wouldn't be too painful to reread and re-immerse myself in the events/narrative. I'll generally subject a tentatively-finished work to some rereads and extra details, sometimes I'll give it a critique stage. Sometimes in the process of getting it started, which is the hardest part, there are false starts. I might chew over a few possible starts, mentally discard them because they're cutting too long or too short, and just run with something if it feels like it's writing itself.
Writing in one go has a few challenges. When I first started off, I got stuck into common traps. One is to get hung up on certain details and lose a sense of flow or direction. Another is to write oneself into a corner, or get fussed when you lose track of what you were originally doing, or get caught in a google-trap because you looked up some word to see if it's the right one, or got hung up on picking the right word, or right measurement, etc.
It's best to have the policy to not leave the docs window and spend 1 minute (which turns into 15) researching so-and-so if you're in the middle of writing. Leave that for the planning stage or between writing sessions. If the detail in question isn't important to the plot, then use a rough approximation or close-enough, then on a reread, you can fix anything that doesn't seem that right or flow too good (maybe you used a measurement like 3 feet when 3 yards would have worked better). You may find yourself needing to rearrange the order of sentences, especially in an intro. This is common if you have an establishing shot of the scenario or whatever, or a text block describing a character.
Anyway, uh. I spent a couple hours reading and then commenting/annotating on a short-form fiction story that I found interesting. It's SFW and nothing to do with furry stuff, but maybe the notes might be interesting. (There's really just what comes to mind for me. I don't critique it because, like, Harlan Ellison was 58 when he wrote it, so I'm pretty sure he knew more about writing than me)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....IyK478DLc/edit
I've also always been willing to critique/redline other people's stuff if they want. Free, pro bono.
Writing in one go has a few challenges. When I first started off, I got stuck into common traps. One is to get hung up on certain details and lose a sense of flow or direction. Another is to write oneself into a corner, or get fussed when you lose track of what you were originally doing, or get caught in a google-trap because you looked up some word to see if it's the right one, or got hung up on picking the right word, or right measurement, etc.
It's best to have the policy to not leave the docs window and spend 1 minute (which turns into 15) researching so-and-so if you're in the middle of writing. Leave that for the planning stage or between writing sessions. If the detail in question isn't important to the plot, then use a rough approximation or close-enough, then on a reread, you can fix anything that doesn't seem that right or flow too good (maybe you used a measurement like 3 feet when 3 yards would have worked better). You may find yourself needing to rearrange the order of sentences, especially in an intro. This is common if you have an establishing shot of the scenario or whatever, or a text block describing a character.
Anyway, uh. I spent a couple hours reading and then commenting/annotating on a short-form fiction story that I found interesting. It's SFW and nothing to do with furry stuff, but maybe the notes might be interesting. (There's really just what comes to mind for me. I don't critique it because, like, Harlan Ellison was 58 when he wrote it, so I'm pretty sure he knew more about writing than me)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....IyK478DLc/edit
I've also always been willing to critique/redline other people's stuff if they want. Free, pro bono.
