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 Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:33 pm
I like it, it's good advice!
My best work comes from total silence and sleeping, anyway.
Or..."sleeping." When your mind is so far gone that you're almost comatose, you can't do anything but think and breathe.
And yes, Reese, it's for you! *offers*
Random fact: I'm thirsty. (>O.o)>C[ROOT BEER]
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:32 pm
Zahmen your advice to Waffles was superb. Stephen King has such a wonderful mind on many different levels.
@Kirby.
When your trying to match two pieces of writing together (I am assuming they are both poetry) you want to find the flow or rhythm of the first. Then looking at the second piece in question, try reading it to the same beat.
Tape your pencil to the beat, rap your fingers, anything to help keep a beat. When you find something that doesn't fit (and is still blah) rework it to work.. and with an improved word choice you can make it seem a lot more sophisticated and/or will help things keep going.
Though dot go crazy looking up in a thesaurus the most extravagant of words with the same meaning. That will make the piece look entirely to fake. And sometimes words have more then one meaning and can be taken differently.
Also what may help is to try and memorize the first piece. Read it to yourself, envision it fully and grasp your own words and meanings.
Then proceed to the second piece and you should be able to feel what needs to be changed.. and reworking it from that.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:35 pm
Er...lovely advice, Takkun, but it was part of Lacausta.
A scene with a whatsitcalled in between...like, a gap whee I put something else between.
Like...dramatic scene with a cutoff--something unrelated--finish scene
the third part was the part that sucked.
Awwes.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:41 pm
Hmm. Okay. Well its because you concentrated on working on the cut-in scene am I right?
Maybe by covering up the cut-in scene and just re-reading the beginning of it you may be able to get back into a train of thought. My advice still works. You can still find a rhythmic pattern in novels.. Its just how the words weave together and tell the story in full.
Try picturing it in your mind.. the scene and how it plays out. Dont think about how you have nothing after a certain point and just go with it.
Lay down on your bed or something close your eyes and almost dream of it.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:13 pm
3nodding
Okay, thanks! Will do.
See, this was the complicated scene...it could go so many different ways, so the first part had two endings. I wrote them both, then moved on to the part I had trouble with, which also had two endings...and so on.
Jeez. I need serious advice for this part. The plot, that is.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:28 pm
Z, the only problem with your advice is that I'd probably go mentally insane before I was withdrawn long enough to reach the state you described.
XD
Besides, I was away for a lot from the guild recently, I'd like to be able to be on often again.
And, I have to read for lit. A lot. I can't just stop reading or I'll fail the class.
Maybe I'll just put this book off until the summer, then I can attention-starve myself laying in my room all day until I go crazy enough to write it, if I don't come up with something before then.
It was good advice, just not practical at this point in time.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:31 pm
Waffles, it's called paradisiticism.
It's like...a self-clensing coma.
You wake up refreshed. But your mind was working the whole time.
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:34 pm
Zahmen Allright Nova King, chill with this pessimistic "I don't see the point of this thread so it shouldn't exist" talk and stop demanding nonsensical answers from people who aren't the one who made the thread. Sorry I haven't been on, been busy. The purpose of this sticky, and I will include this in the original post: I know a lot about writing. Studied various forms of literatiure, been on newspaper at my school for four years, had a novel almost poublished (Random House sucks c**k and botched it all, but that's neither here nor there) and have been writing since I was about seven. This is an advice thread, got writer's block? Ask for some advice. Need an idea? Ask for advice. Need that last sentence of a story that you just can't formulate? Ask for advice. Yes, I will act as a thesaraus if need be but that's not what I'll specialize in. Hopefully I will get enough examples to build a little webpage with qoutes and questions paired with answers, so yeah, this may be recorded. Hey broken, appreciate the offer to show us up, but if you want a thread where people send you story after story after story after ******** story to edit for them until you go ******** apeshit and hate writing all together, then ask Waffles to make you one; but seeing as this is an ADVICE thread, and NOT an editing one, I think I'll pass. Tak Jak, I appreciate you helping me. And once again, stop making ******** waves, if you don't agree then don't use it, this isn't your guild alone, mystery reader, this is our guild; and as long as one other person aside from me and Waffles agree, it's staying. i never said it shouldnt exist, just that we need to define "help" Also, i've already lobbied for a request. Theres no need to just yell at me sad
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:41 pm
It's what we do when you act like a noob. *punches shoulder* cheer up.
I SUPPORT THE SAVE ENGLISH MOVEMENT!!!!!!!
*votes anti "txt tlk"*
Stupid schools in Australia letting kids write SATS with it...
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:41 pm
Oh and Kirbs. The word ameliorate means to improve, or to make something better. Sorry, still practicing for the SAT and i thought it sounded nice, so ive been putting it into practice.
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:10 pm
riiight.
Okay, thanks.
PS: The SAT isn't that hard.
wink
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:12 pm
Oukow ooh! Zahmen! *waves hand in the air* At school we have a Young Authors Contest and It'll be starting pretty soon. I have narrowed it down to two ideas for my story for this contest but I can't decided. I was wondering after I write a bit for both stories could you read about a few paragraphs and give me your opinion on which one I should write? You don't have too, but if you say yes, I'd give you a cookie the size of Jupiter and also if you do say yes I don't know when you could help me out tho'. >.< But it's up to you great Zahmen of writting knowledge and tips! We do that. I won one year, and all they'd let me get after that was runner-up 'cause they only let you win once. stare Amanda won last year. After I edit *cough*rewrote*cough* her story. ninja
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:17 pm
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:41 pm
KirbyVictorious riiight. Okay, thanks. PS: The SAT isn't that hard. wink i know i just like inflating my head ; )
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