Lord Tezzy
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- Posted: Wed, 06 May 2009 00:01:53 +0000
I've got fun little game. It's great. Bear with me.
Here are the rules:
1)I'm going to come up with the beginning of the sentence. (I'm sure you've all played this before, it's a pretty common writing game).
2) After I've come up with the sentence starter, I'll post it up.
3) You all are going to read the sentence starter and really think about it. I mean, REALLY think about what the sentence starter is.
4) Then, you all are going to watch as I finish the sentence for you, because you all have proven time and again (save a few exceptions) that you don't know what you are doing half the time.
5) You shall not confuse the word "story" with the word "plot." Within this thread, the word "story" shall mean everything contained within the writing. The point, the way if works with the audience, the plot, the characters, the setting, and the style. Even the format. Story= the sum of all aspects the entire piece of writing.
5) Then you may attempt to disagree and get squashed like cockroachs.
Here goes:
The Rules of Writing are____
Non-existant, save one. In which case "rules of writing" is a misnomer and the topic of this section should be:
The One Rule of Writing to Rule them All is ____
The story and it's purpose come before everything else. Before the plot, the characters, the setting, the style, the authors hopes and dreams, the fans hopes and dreams, your mother's hopes and dreams, let's shoot for blaspheme and say even before your god or gods hopes and dreams. And most certainly before the guidelines of writing. (We are going to overlook the obvious "sit down and write" and other other variant of the overtly obvious that everyone already knows. As opposed to the glaringly obvious that everyone seems to either overlook, forget, or not know. Such as the One Rule to Rule Them All) In short: the story as a whole is most important and everything else needs to serve the story as a whole.
The Guidelines of Writing are_____
s**t. Because every guideline is meant to keep you from making a mistake in writing: a mistake that may not even be present. But every guideline, despite trying to steer people away from mistakes, forgets that it is a servant to the One Rule of Writing to Rule Them All. And for that reason: all guidelines should be taken out back, have their feet cemented, shot, and then thrown in a river to sleep with the fishes. (that was the hyperbole, since some people don't understand. So yeah, while I dislike an strict adherence to these, overall they are guidelines for a reason, though some of them are more useful than others. Still, remember: "no rule should be followed off a cliff" to quote some random cite linked in the thread...)
Examples of False Prophets are_____
Show, don't tell.
Don't info-dump.
Don't use said.
Don't use variants of said.
Don't tag your dialogue.
Don't NOT tag your dialogue.
Don't use ____ method (EX: snowflake, MRU, etc.)
Always use ____ method.
Don't do your research.
Practice makes perfect
Always write in active voice (And it's corollary "don't ever write in passive voice" wink
Don't use lots of linking verbs
Any other rule or list of rules that claims to be a rule of writing but is not the One Rule of Writing to Rule Them All.
So, now that I've slapped you in the face with some truth (I have killed the God of Truth today and taken his power, so now I am the God of Discord and Truth) you have three options:
1) Agree on all counts.
2) Post another false guideline.
3) Disagree in any way and be squashed like a cockroach (as in, I will prove you wrong).
You are permitted to discuss the validity of any method or guideline, but you must also acknowledge that it is just a guideline and thus may be broken if it no longer serves the One Rule of Writing to Rule Them All. Else you shall be squashed like a cockroach.
Now please, stop posting about rules of writing. Stop posting about runny a** shitty guidelines that has very little value to an intelligent writer. Stop posting s**t period. And also: stop posting threads about your writing, your friends writing, inspiration, and any other overdone thread that may or may not break the rules.
You are dismissed back to your ignorance. Or you may stay in the blessed light of truth.
Here are the rules:
1)I'm going to come up with the beginning of the sentence. (I'm sure you've all played this before, it's a pretty common writing game).
2) After I've come up with the sentence starter, I'll post it up.
3) You all are going to read the sentence starter and really think about it. I mean, REALLY think about what the sentence starter is.
4) Then, you all are going to watch as I finish the sentence for you, because you all have proven time and again (save a few exceptions) that you don't know what you are doing half the time.
5) You shall not confuse the word "story" with the word "plot." Within this thread, the word "story" shall mean everything contained within the writing. The point, the way if works with the audience, the plot, the characters, the setting, and the style. Even the format. Story= the sum of all aspects the entire piece of writing.
5) Then you may attempt to disagree and get squashed like cockroachs.
Here goes:
The Rules of Writing are____
Non-existant, save one. In which case "rules of writing" is a misnomer and the topic of this section should be:
The One Rule of Writing to Rule them All is ____
The story and it's purpose come before everything else. Before the plot, the characters, the setting, the style, the authors hopes and dreams, the fans hopes and dreams, your mother's hopes and dreams, let's shoot for blaspheme and say even before your god or gods hopes and dreams. And most certainly before the guidelines of writing. (We are going to overlook the obvious "sit down and write" and other other variant of the overtly obvious that everyone already knows. As opposed to the glaringly obvious that everyone seems to either overlook, forget, or not know. Such as the One Rule to Rule Them All) In short: the story as a whole is most important and everything else needs to serve the story as a whole.
The Guidelines of Writing are_____
s**t. Because every guideline is meant to keep you from making a mistake in writing: a mistake that may not even be present. But every guideline, despite trying to steer people away from mistakes, forgets that it is a servant to the One Rule of Writing to Rule Them All. And for that reason: all guidelines should be taken out back, have their feet cemented, shot, and then thrown in a river to sleep with the fishes. (that was the hyperbole, since some people don't understand. So yeah, while I dislike an strict adherence to these, overall they are guidelines for a reason, though some of them are more useful than others. Still, remember: "no rule should be followed off a cliff" to quote some random cite linked in the thread...)
Examples of False Prophets are_____
Show, don't tell.
Don't info-dump.
Don't use said.
Don't use variants of said.
Don't tag your dialogue.
Don't NOT tag your dialogue.
Don't use ____ method (EX: snowflake, MRU, etc.)
Always use ____ method.
Don't do your research.
Practice makes perfect
Always write in active voice (And it's corollary "don't ever write in passive voice" wink
Don't use lots of linking verbs
Any other rule or list of rules that claims to be a rule of writing but is not the One Rule of Writing to Rule Them All.
So, now that I've slapped you in the face with some truth (I have killed the God of Truth today and taken his power, so now I am the God of Discord and Truth) you have three options:
1) Agree on all counts.
2) Post another false guideline.
3) Disagree in any way and be squashed like a cockroach (as in, I will prove you wrong).
You are permitted to discuss the validity of any method or guideline, but you must also acknowledge that it is just a guideline and thus may be broken if it no longer serves the One Rule of Writing to Rule Them All. Else you shall be squashed like a cockroach.
Now please, stop posting about rules of writing. Stop posting about runny a** shitty guidelines that has very little value to an intelligent writer. Stop posting s**t period. And also: stop posting threads about your writing, your friends writing, inspiration, and any other overdone thread that may or may not break the rules.
You are dismissed back to your ignorance. Or you may stay in the blessed light of truth.
