Planting is Writing Too
by Wholesome Rage | 25 April 2018
In the gulf of planning and pantsing is ‘planting’, where I cheerfully sit. I realize there’s a lot of stigma — usually internal — on writers says that writing needs to feel… proper. That there’s a pressure on you to plan, to plan rigidly, to have an objective and to meet it. To not have a strong sketch in your head feels like laziness, even though you’re not sure what good it would do for you personally.
Sometimes it means that when someone asks you; “So what happens next?” and you have the clearest idea of your beginning and end points, but someone asks about the middle, you feel like a failure or like you’re in way over your head. But when you sit down to actually write the damn thing, you do just fine.
Quick Fixes
by Wholesome Rage | 18 April 2018
There’s an old adage; There’s no quick fix.
Here is a short article dedicated entirely to the quick fixes that will drastically improve your writing. This one’s fairly simple, it’s the kind of stuff that’s obvious in hindsight, but hard to figure out or pin down on your own.
On Character Writing
by Wholesome Rage | 4 April 2018
It turns out that, ostensibly, creative writing is my field of specialization. I obviously get dreadfully embarrassed by this and write about everything from sewers to warheads to avoid talking about it, but it’s always a topic I feel compelled to come back to.
I personally believe the one thing that every novelist needs to nail, more than anything else, is good character writing. With screenwriting you can get away with a lot less, and that’s for a good reason: You want to see what different actors bring to the story’s table. You don’t want to make a character too rigid in a screenplay, because making a character is a collaborative process between the writer, the actor and the director.
In one way, a novelist doesn’t have the restriction. In another way, a novelist doesn’t have that freedom or leniency.
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