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When I'm in the zone, it just flows. The part I find difficult about writing is that I actually get impatient! lol. I want to get to the next part and get impatient describing the action building up to it. I also get frustrated because things always take so much longer to tell than I had thought they would. I think something will be a few lines and two pages later, I'm still writing it. lol

 

Mostly, I just need to staple my butt down and WRITE.

Same! And I have so little times to write these days :(

 

Don't worry. I'll get to your story eventually


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Imagine a group of a hundred motorcycles driving down a freeway. Eventually, they hit a junction. One road goes northwest and the other goes northeast. So one guy, we'll call him S, says, "Let's go northwest!" A mile past the intersection, a semi careens into the group and kills ninety of them. Ten are wounded, but they survive and keep going. Eventually, they hit 10,000 miles. S suddenly has his consciousness thrown into his past body right before the junction. Now, he says, "Let's go northeast!" All 100 bikers survive. Happily ever after, right? But what about the ten, no nine, who went northwest and survived? What happens to the reality they were living? Does it just disappear now that S has changed the past? It's not like only bad things happened on that 10,000 mile journey. Maybe one of them fell in love with a gas station attendant and got her pregnant or maybe one adopted a homeless kid that joined the adventure. That 10,000 mile journey would be full of stories. Romances, farewells, friendships...the loss of those ninety lives is horrible and unfortunate, but what would rewriting their history mean? The nine who survived lived full lives and did the best they could with the hand they were dealt. How could it be right to just erase all that? Isn't that worth something? Is there a point to a world where everything is happy? Are people who struggle for a better life just idiots? Being human is about fighting even when it seems hopeless and finding happiness in a world that hates it. Are you saying that's worthless?


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Emotions Chart, which aids in keeping things in order of how people are feeling and the right words to use to describe them.

 

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How a 50 page edit will rock your story. 

10 Common Facial Expressions, described.

 

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What type of genre do you guys typically write? I'm curious. 


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What type of genre do you guys typically write? I'm curious. 

Typically I've written, true life stories about my (and other's) caving/spelunking adventures. At the moment it's zombie fiction and eventually I'll merge into horror and science fiction. 


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For the moment with my writing, dialogue is one of the hardest things for me to write. Figuring out what one character will say and then what the appropriate (or sometimes off the wall) response that the listener will give. 
This is a good article about 5 Basics of Dialogue. I found it helpful. Hope you writers (and readers) will too. 
 


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I find writing hard lols d:


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I find writing hard lols d:

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When I'm in the zone, it just flows. The part I find difficult about writing is that I actually get impatient! lol. I want to get to the next part and get impatient describing the action building up to it. I also get frustrated because things always take so much longer to tell than I had thought they would. I think something will be a few lines and two pages later, I'm still writing it. lol

 

Mostly, I just need to staple my butt down and WRITE.

 

I run into this too. What I do is just jam it out to get it on paper, er, screen. Then I go back and revise, revise, revise. Sure, the first draft is utter crap, but at least the bones are there to build on. 

 

I also don't start a story at the beginning. If I've got a good action scene, I'll start there, go back to the start, skip to the end, you get the idea. That way I get out what is on the forefront of my mind when all the good ideas are fresh. Revision is the time to sew it all together and beef it up, or trim the fat.

 

I +1 this but still had to smile, thinking about my own writing days when I was handling two little ones a toddler and an infant. My thought went out to you and had to ask ... the toddler does have "nap-time" right. 
However long you have to write, then write. Even if 10 minutes at a time, depending upon your typing skills it shouldn't take long to put down even 500 words (which is roughly a paragraph) which is not bad. 
But yeah my own life gets in the way of trying to finish Caught In A Bind. So do what you can when you can. 

 

I found that it's better to go ahead and slam dunk all those ideas down on "paper" so that when you find a spot in your story that can use the idea then there ya go, no struggle to "what do I need to put here?" Remember that the first go around is just the rough draft so all of that can be cleaned up later as you go back over it. 

 

I created a separate page on my HD/folder just for those pesky ideas that make you say "DAMN that's good!!" but haven't found a spot for it... yet. 
Just keep writing as you got time for it. 

 

She does still nap, but that's when I eat my lunch so I can actually eat without a kid hanging off my arm begging for bites. Once lunch is done, there's not a lot of time left for writing. Right now is just not a good time for serious writing is all. I know it's temporary and am not too worried about it. Like I said earlier, I do still write, just nothing substantial and just for fun. 


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I run into this too. What I do is just jam it out to get it on paper, er, screen. Then I go back and revise, revise, revise. Sure, the first draft is utter crap, but at least the bones are there to build on. 

 

I also don't start a story at the beginning. If I've got a good action scene, I'll start there, go back to the start, skip to the end, you get the idea. That way I get out what is on the forefront of my mind when all the good ideas are fresh. Revision is the time to sew it all together and beef it up, or trim the fat.

 

 

She does still nap, but that's when I eat my lunch so I can actually eat without a kid hanging off my arm begging for bites. Once lunch is done, there's not a lot of time left for writing. Right now is just not a good time for serious writing is all. I know it's temporary and am not too worried about it. Like I said earlier, I do still write, just nothing substantial and just for fun. 

:) Yeah, a lot of what I've seen being touted at "writer's quotes" (which are probably as legit as the Abraham Lincoln quotes we see on the web), say that as long as you're writing SOMETHING it helps hone the skills. 
For me I, took a grammar test and got 50% of it right... that's not good (IMO) and tells me that I need to brush up on it. So more study and less writing on my part for the time being. 
At the moment I'm putting the brakes on the "2nd Volume" on my series, and going back to revise the first and hopefully have it ready for editing by mid-summer and published by late fall. 


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