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It’s kinda funny, how things
work. Today, as I’m writing this,
its Valentine’s Day, and the
movie 50 Shades of Grey is
about to come out.
You know, the book everybody
loves to rubbish but reads it
anyway?
Yeah, THAT book.
This article I read on it summed
it up far better than I ever
could:
Quote
“.......That’s a skill that’s often de-
rided in publishing, but it’s a skill
nonetheless. Stories aren’t just
the quality of their writing.
They’re also about, y’know, how
well you tell the story. Ideally, an
author manages both good writ-
ing and good storytelling, but we
frequently celebrate writers who
are beautiful craftspeople but
whose books feature boring or
even nonexistent plots.
Why do we so rarely celebrate
the inverse of that writers who
might not possess beautiful
prose but know how to tell a
cracking yarn?.........”
How to tell a cracking yarn.
That, to me, is the real skill
in writing. I want to be taken
there, see what the author
sees.
In doing that, I’m part of the
story. Don’t look at your writing
from the perspective of a writer
- look at it from the perspective
of a READER.
Get what’s in your heart out,
instead of what’s in your head.
That bit comes later, when
you sit back, and read over
what you’ve written, making
small changes here and there,
substituting words, making
paragraphs, and generally ti-
dying up. And the passion that
you’ve written your story with
will still shine through.
Oh and for the record, 50
Shades annoyed the hell out
of me - but I read every damn
page.
Just my two cents worth.
mouth {JT}
“write about
what you
love”
>mouth {JT}
> Realms of Storm: the great Shadows await to
corrupt and ruin the lives of those who invite it in.
I’ve always been told, “Write about what you know.”
While that’s really good advice, and you can’t go wrong with it, I
prefer to work with the sentiment “write about what you love”.
Don’t worry about verbs, commas, paragraphs or anything else
like that. Don’t try to choose different words to describe the
same thing. None of that. Just WRITE, and if you’re writing about
something you love, the words simply fall from your fingers faster
than you can type them.
Passion wins over prose every time.
Quote source : http://www.msn.com/en-nz/entertainment/
movies/8-questions-youre-too-embarrassed-to-ask-about-fif-
ty-shades-of-grey/ar-AA9ng9k
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