How to write fiction
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Get ready to write fiction 3
A good writer is also a good reader and very observant
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Get ready to write fiction 2
Start with known stuff: anything that comes as known and takes part in the contents of our safe box of a skull is what you know and should write about.
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Get ready to write fiction
The decision of format is not just a decision. It is a summation of chained elements. And how could you get an idea of any kind when you shall use the third or the fourth, perfectly reflected upon?
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How to write fiction: understanding the basic mistakes (more mistakes)
WHO HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING, HAS NEVER MADE MISTAKES. We are to make mistakes, even with the mistakes we shall not make if we're to get better at all.
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How to write fiction: understanding the basic mistakes
Wodehouse in A damsel in distress remounts how the modern reader has no time for the author to dissert about this and that and it is paramount to start as soon as possible. Which is kind of a beginning quite dissimilar to those he recommends since; we have learnt nothing about any character or conflict yet. Nonetheless, it is. It makes us wonder: what’s next? And such is the mineral vein or the gold nugget. To create anticipation is good to have people wanting to get wet and go get themselves in mud to screen the gold out.
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How to write fiction: imagenless guide
On the other side, how many times have we rejected a story we couldn’t deem ”believable”? As something THAT doesn’t work as real within its frame. A story is a game. A game inside which we believe what the author says.
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How to write fiction: imagenless guide
Summarising, we have two completely different things: reality and fiction. Which are, in fact, not as different as Hilary Mantel (historical novel writer) would say. After all, History is written by historians. And historians have their own likes and dislikes, interests and disinterests.
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How to write fiction in 10 steps (Do the Wikihow listed steps really work?)
What you truthfully can, at least, is turn on the spelling of the word processor programme… because spelling is secondary if you’re the cat who defecates the best coffee.
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How to write fiction in 10 steps (Do the Wikihow listed steps really work?)
The way an author has to use structure to take you where she wants to, is something you might have to copy, in the very beginning.
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How to write fiction in 10 steps (Do the Wikihow listed steps really work?)
More than “creativity”, what you need is to learn what is conflict and which are the genre requirements BEFORE you have a rain check idea session or start writing for the sake of writing. IT IS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT to acquire the habit of writing.



