Please! Listen to Captain Picard! For the love of the Chaos Gods! Please!
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torsdag 29 oktober 2009
Valkyrie Diaries Guide to Writing Fanfiction: Epilogue
Please! Listen to Captain Picard! For the love of the Chaos Gods! Please!
onsdag 28 oktober 2009
tisdag 27 oktober 2009
Valkyrie diaries writing guide for fanfiction: part 7 and 8
7. Plan your work, work your plan:
This is originally a battlefield adage, but it applies to the world of writing as well. If you know where your story is going and how you're going to get there in advance, writing it becomes easier overall. I have seen too many potentially good stories peter out into nothing because the author didn't plan the plot out properly. Not planning it out leads to loose plot threads and sub-plots that never get closure; these things will lead to a lot of disappointment amongst your readers and are known to start wars.
This is originally a battlefield adage, but it applies to the world of writing as well. If you know where your story is going and how you're going to get there in advance, writing it becomes easier overall. I have seen too many potentially good stories peter out into nothing because the author didn't plan the plot out properly. Not planning it out leads to loose plot threads and sub-plots that never get closure; these things will lead to a lot of disappointment amongst your readers and are known to start wars.
måndag 26 oktober 2009
söndag 25 oktober 2009
lördag 24 oktober 2009
Valkyrie Diaries writing guide for fanfiction: part 3 and 4
3. "Ing-disease":
This is more to be considered a point 2a, but I think it warrants its own entry. This is a grammatical curiosity most common amongst English speakers from the Scandinavian countries, but it is getting pretty common across the globe. It stems, as far as I know, from a desire to put more action into the written words, culminating with the use of the -ing form instead of the past tense. It usually results in literary characters doing a lot of things simultaneously, usually a lot of impossible things. Use the past tense to describe what people are doing, and only use the -ing form in conjunction with the past tense, if other actions take place at the same time as the "master action" in past tense.
Example:
✔ "Officer Crabtree ran up the stairs to the door. As he reached the top he pulled out his revolver and, checking the magazine was loaded, prepared to kick the door in."
✖ "Running up the stairs to the door, Officer Crabtree checked his revolver for bullets and prepared to kick the door in."
Poor Officer Crabtree can't kick a door in if he's busy running, can he? Maybe he's a par cour master, who knows? It looks silly, nonetheless.
4. Writing for the ∫tage:
This is more to be considered a point 2a, but I think it warrants its own entry. This is a grammatical curiosity most common amongst English speakers from the Scandinavian countries, but it is getting pretty common across the globe. It stems, as far as I know, from a desire to put more action into the written words, culminating with the use of the -ing form instead of the past tense. It usually results in literary characters doing a lot of things simultaneously, usually a lot of impossible things. Use the past tense to describe what people are doing, and only use the -ing form in conjunction with the past tense, if other actions take place at the same time as the "master action" in past tense.
Example:
✔ "Officer Crabtree ran up the stairs to the door. As he reached the top he pulled out his revolver and, checking the magazine was loaded, prepared to kick the door in."
✖ "Running up the stairs to the door, Officer Crabtree checked his revolver for bullets and prepared to kick the door in."
Poor Officer Crabtree can't kick a door in if he's busy running, can he? Maybe he's a par cour master, who knows? It looks silly, nonetheless.
4. Writing for the ∫tage:
fredag 23 oktober 2009
Valkyrie Diaries writing guide for fanfiction: part 1 and 2
Writing fanfics is fun, isn't it? It's cool to take the characters of your favourite show and put them through an adventure entirely of your own design. Yet, there comes a point when you must ask yourself: am I writing this just for fun, or do I want others to read it and enjoy it as much as I?
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