Vanessa99
Re: a few suggestions?
What works for me that might work for you:
*Background Music: I find that whatever music is in the background gives a feeling to my writing. So if your writing a horror scene play scary music. Trying to get a homey feeling go country or whatever portrays the mood you are trying to create in your writing.
*Don't edit until your finished. You may change certain parts or delete them entirely making the editing of those parts pointless.
*The ideal chapter: For me personally the ideal chapter is around 12-15 pages. For others it may be different. I usually like to stop reading after I've finished whatever chapter I was on. But I don't always want to read another thirty pages.
*Don't make each scene a chapter. Divide scenes by using two spaces and three asteriks centered between the two spaces. Or some other method.
*It really helps to plan. If you don't know where the story is going its really hard to create symbolism and foreshadowing.
*Write the major scenes first- those will be the bones of your writing. Then write the things that happen inbetween to tie it all together.
*I agree the radio should be off.
*Don't use subtitles in your writing. I've seen this done in a book. Where someone writes what a foreign person is saying in the spanish or some other language and then write translation: the words in english underneath. It's distracting.
*Avoid giving characters similar sounding names. Eg. Tim and Tom. Anna and Andrea. Margery and Margeret. It's easy to confuse them.
*Perfect Characters can be very boring.
What works for me that might work for you:
*Background Music: I find that whatever music is in the background gives a feeling to my writing. So if your writing a horror scene play scary music. Trying to get a homey feeling go country or whatever portrays the mood you are trying to create in your writing.
*Don't edit until your finished. You may change certain parts or delete them entirely making the editing of those parts pointless.
*The ideal chapter: For me personally the ideal chapter is around 12-15 pages. For others it may be different. I usually like to stop reading after I've finished whatever chapter I was on. But I don't always want to read another thirty pages.
*Don't make each scene a chapter. Divide scenes by using two spaces and three asteriks centered between the two spaces. Or some other method.
*It really helps to plan. If you don't know where the story is going its really hard to create symbolism and foreshadowing.
*Write the major scenes first- those will be the bones of your writing. Then write the things that happen inbetween to tie it all together.
*I agree the radio should be off.
*Don't use subtitles in your writing. I've seen this done in a book. Where someone writes what a foreign person is saying in the spanish or some other language and then write translation: the words in english underneath. It's distracting.
*Avoid giving characters similar sounding names. Eg. Tim and Tom. Anna and Andrea. Margery and Margeret. It's easy to confuse them.
*Perfect Characters can be very boring.