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timepiececlock) wrote2002-10-07 02:13 pm
timepiececlock) wrote2002-10-07 02:13 pm
writing
The following are the most important things I've learned so far about writing, complied from my muddled brain and its recollection of 13 years of public school English, as well as movies, conversation, an inordinate amount of books as a kid, and an overabundance of internet fanfiction:
1. The key to diction is conveying the most amount of meaning with the least amount of words.
2. Variety in sentence structure is the difference between comic book dialogue bubbles and people like Stephen King, Tolkien or Mary Shelley.
3. Grammar rules can never be broken, but they can be skillfully bent and twisted beyond all recognition, and come out the better for it.
4. There is nothing that is so instantly disatisfying to see in a story as rapid unexplained change in tense. It ruins everything.
5. A good thesaurus, above all people or things in this polluted little world, is your best friend.
6. If you want to use a word but you're not 100% sure what it means, you should look it up and save yourself from some extreme embarrassment later.
7. Never use the same word twice in a sentence, unless it serves a particular purpose in the idea/meaning that sentence is mean to convey.
8. Like in art, not every piece written by a famous author is sacred. Some it is crap written back when the famous writer was normal person.
... and this is me wasting time because I don't want to revise my story homework in fiction writing class.
1. The key to diction is conveying the most amount of meaning with the least amount of words.
2. Variety in sentence structure is the difference between comic book dialogue bubbles and people like Stephen King, Tolkien or Mary Shelley.
3. Grammar rules can never be broken, but they can be skillfully bent and twisted beyond all recognition, and come out the better for it.
4. There is nothing that is so instantly disatisfying to see in a story as rapid unexplained change in tense. It ruins everything.
5. A good thesaurus, above all people or things in this polluted little world, is your best friend.
6. If you want to use a word but you're not 100% sure what it means, you should look it up and save yourself from some extreme embarrassment later.
7. Never use the same word twice in a sentence, unless it serves a particular purpose in the idea/meaning that sentence is mean to convey.
8. Like in art, not every piece written by a famous author is sacred. Some it is crap written back when the famous writer was normal person.
... and this is me wasting time because I don't want to revise my story homework in fiction writing class.