>>>Reply to Scrapper's Dos and Don'ts for fanfiction beginners.
First of all, I'll never feel the need to be breif when posting ever
again. I use to write verbose 'forum esays' streteching from this
reality to the next; carefully constructing my oppinon only for
viewers to take one look post TLDNR and move on. Nice to see there
are others who believe that any idea or oppinon worthy of
consideration should also be worth taking the time to express fully.
Breif messages and posts, much like breif critiques, are nice; but
largely unconstructive and for the most part uninformative.
It was an enjoyable read filled with good advice and simply explained
reasoning. The use of exsamples is a must when not having a face to
face conversation. There isn't much I could add lest it would move
into the realm of personal preference rather than universally sage
advice.
>>>Quote:
What is the basic premise for the story? Why are these characters
doing this? What are their motivations? If you don’t have this, there
is no story, or not one worth reading. “Some furs did some stuff and
wandered around a bit, yeah...†Doesn’t make for riveting
reading. :-/ Hence why much porn is boring. Two people got together
and had sex. There we are; was that exciting? No. You need to have a
build up, a motivation for them wanting to. You need to have some
form of explanation in the form of the way a character acts, says,
etc to justify this. Writing in an explanation of why someone is
doing something is just lame and very boring to read. A reader wants
to learn about a character incidentally as the plot unfolds and not
have to read a ‘bio’ to understand them. That's YOUR job as an author.
>>>Scrapper
One point you breifly touched on, but I can hardly stress the
importance of is story speed. The slow and steady building of plot as
well as exposition. You have to get to know the characaters
personally and get use to the way they currently are before trying to
alter them into what they will be; remember, imperfections leads to
realism which in turn leads to an emotional investment on the part of
the reader. That creates a desirable story with memoriable characters.
Thanks for posting. It's reposeful to peer though the eyes of one who
cares enough to assist others on thier journey in the art word
weaving.
-Dyne D. Solweaver
Received on Mon Feb 23 2009 - 01:37:07 CST