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I wanted to double check that “The Cherry on Top” was a short novel or novella and I found this on uphillwriting.org. I think it’s very informative and hopefully you guys will find it useful!
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Do you realise how vain and arrogant 3rd Person Omniscient is? Like, who’s the reader supposed to be? God?
The secret of 3rd person omniscient (speaking as somebody who writes it sometimes) is that it has a narrator, who has an agenda, and controls the flow of information.
The reader may not ever understand who that narrator is and what their agenda entails.
But the writer must.
Which goes back to one of the other important lessons: All Narrators Are Unreliable.
Something isn't Write
Earlier today I shared a piece/rant/warning flag from the indomitable Diane Duane about rights issues with the Amtrak Residency Program. If you’re not interested in a free trip to write on a cross country train, you might have ignored it.
That was a mistake.
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" The tricky thing if you’re an aspiring filmmaker is, I think, if you’re young and particular the danger is always being clever. That cleverness is a facility some of us have and we like to show off and show off how smart we are, it’s a very dangerous kind of seduction because, it’s sort of like when you have an answering machine and you leave a clever message and after a little while you get a little tired of it, you know, it doesn’t have much staying power. The issue is, what is it you’re in love with? What is it that compels you? What is it when you’re alone and you’re not with all your cool and hip friends, what is it that really stirs you? That’s the stuff. You know thats going to be compelling. What is it that embarrasses you, that you fear to expose about yourself, your feelings about others or about the world in which you live? It’s those intimate feelings that one has that I think bear the best fruit for you."
Todd Solondz (x)
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
TERRY PRATCHETT (via phatalbert)
This blog is not dead!
Hey, I just wanted to let everyone know that this blog is not dead or abandoned in any way!
However, I do have some very major changes happening in my life in the next couple of months. These include a move half way across the country. So I am going to understandably be more than a little distracted. (And stressed!)
I am going to do my best to keep updating (including sitting down at some point and just queuing a bunch), but please understand that there will be times that new content will be spotty.
Thank you so much for your support of this blog! You have no clue how much it means to me! And remember that I am always willing to answer more specific questions that you might have about character development.
Question 122
How much does your character have to spin around before they get dizzy? Do other things make your character dizzy? What throws off their balance?
Question 121
How self pitying is your character? Is their amount of self pity healthy? Or do they have too much of too little? How long do they spend feeling bad for themselves before they move on?
Question 120
Describe you character's feet. Their heels, their toes... what aspects of your character's feet stand out? Do they have and birthmarks and scars on their feet? Are their feet hairy? Do they have marks on their feet from ill fitting shoes?
Question 119
How spicy of food can your character handle? How spicy of food does your character like? Does eating hot food make your character sick?
Question 118
Your character is presented with a (highly addictive) phone game that they've never played before? How do they respond?
Question 117
How does your character feel when they see the sunrise? Why do they feel this way? Are there any memorable sunrises in your character's life?
Question 116
What event has frightened your character the most? Why did this frighten them? Are they still bothered by it?
Question 115
What are your character's vices? How often do they indulge in them? Are they fine with them, or does your character feel guilty about them?
If your character has none, why don't they?
(Note: a vice can be a bad habit, but a bad habit is not always a "vice.")
Question 114
If your character could have lunch with one person from their universe, alive or dead, who would it be and why?
Question 113
What is your character's favorite type of bread? Why do they like it so much? How often do they have it? Describe how your character would eat it.
If your character does not eat bread, I am sorry.
If you are a writer, and you have a novel idea that you are excited about writing, write it. Don’t go on message boards and ask random Internet denizens whether or not something is allowed. … Who is the writer here? YOU ARE. Whose book is it? YOUR BOOK. There are no writing police. No one is going to arrest you if you write a teen vampire novel post Twilight. No one is going to send you off to a desert island to live a wretched life of worm eating and regret because your book includes things that could be seen as cliché. If you have a book that you want to write, just write the damn thing. Don’t worry about selling it; that comes later. Instead, worry about making your book good. Worry about the best way to order your scenes to create maximum tension, worry about if your character’s actions are actually in character; worry about your grammar. DON’T worry about which of your stylistic choices some potential future editor will use to reject you, and for the love of My Little Ponies don’t worry about trends. Trying to catching a trend is like trying to catch a falling knife—dangerous, foolhardy, and often ending in tears, usually yours. I’m not saying you shouldn’t pay attention to what’s getting published; keeping an eye on what’s going on in your market is part of being a smart and savvy writer. But remember that every book you see hitting the shelves today was sold over a year ago, maybe two. Even if you do hit a trend, there’s no guarantee the world won’t be totally different by the time that book comes out. The only certainty you have is your own enthusiasm and love for your work. … If your YA urban fantasy features fairies, vampires, and selkies and you decide halfway through that the vampires are over-complicating the plot, that is an appropriate time to ax the bloodsuckers. If you decide to cut them because you’re worried there are too many vampire books out right now, then you are betraying yourself, your dreams, and your art. If you’re like pretty much every other author in the world, you became a writer because you had stories you wanted to tell. Those are your stories, and no one can tell them better than you can. So write your stories, and then edit your stories until you have something you can be proud of. Write the stories that excite you, stories you can’t wait to share with the world because they’re just so amazing. If you want to write Murder She Wrote in space with anime-style mecha driven by cats, go for it. Nothing is off limits unless you do it badly. And if you must obsess over something, obsess over stuff like tension and pacing and creating believable characters. You know, the shit that matters. There are no writing police. This is your story, no one else’s. Tell it like you want to.
Rachel Aaron (via relatedworlds)
