One thing that I don't very much of in my short stories is elaborate on the setting. In Margaret Atwood's fiction, she can write a whole page of description, but one thing that can happen is the reader's imagination is then fixed, and not creating what they think it is like. I'm a big fan of hers, but it can get frustrating, and I think to myself, Just get to the story, already!
One of the luxuries about writing fiction is you can recreate your own personal experiences or keep them the way they actually happened, you can put a little bit of yourself into each character in ways you can grow into or out of, a real way of healing. A lot of times, just by reading lots of fiction, you can develop what feelings you had, good or bad, and use that in your own writing.
In some of my longer fiction, I did create an outline, and I stuck to it pretty well. Other times, I would brainstorm certain new ideas for writing, typing out the What? Where? How? and keeping this workbook style page going and going that I would come back to and start working on them. I don't do this much anymore, but instead might mention an idea on my blog, and then put it my documents for safe keeping.
I started out as a poet, then I wanted to do other things with writing, while the plays and sketches I've done get a reaction that they are strange or weird, my fiction is more or less essential reading. I've done several trilogies on the preclude of a famous story, fable, or movie. You can find a lot of my fiction in my ebooks on Kindle Store, but as always, also on my blog.
One of the luxuries about writing fiction is you can recreate your own personal experiences or keep them the way they actually happened, you can put a little bit of yourself into each character in ways you can grow into or out of, a real way of healing. A lot of times, just by reading lots of fiction, you can develop what feelings you had, good or bad, and use that in your own writing.
In some of my longer fiction, I did create an outline, and I stuck to it pretty well. Other times, I would brainstorm certain new ideas for writing, typing out the What? Where? How? and keeping this workbook style page going and going that I would come back to and start working on them. I don't do this much anymore, but instead might mention an idea on my blog, and then put it my documents for safe keeping.
I started out as a poet, then I wanted to do other things with writing, while the plays and sketches I've done get a reaction that they are strange or weird, my fiction is more or less essential reading. I've done several trilogies on the preclude of a famous story, fable, or movie. You can find a lot of my fiction in my ebooks on Kindle Store, but as always, also on my blog.
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