Alright peeps, I’m pretty serious about trying to write my angsty fic after much support and enthusiasm from y’all
HOWEVER
while the story is there in my head and I don’t really have an issue with dialogue, I do seriously struggle with sufficiently converting images into words (I’m a visual artist, of course this is a problem for me), so basically the describe-y bits. Also momentum.
So if anyone has any writing tips on how to get started, how to translate what it is you see in your head into words (a.k.a how to write), and how to stay motivated… please fire them at me or link me to good articles or whatever you think is helpful.
That’d be super awesome fantastic!
I tend to find that description can wait. Write your draft. Insert description when you happen to think of it, or you know what it should be, or if it’s actively necessary to the scene (people need to know about the stapler that someone’s head is about to get beaten in with).
Otherwise, after the initial draft, you will go back through, and fix your typos, and make sentences make sense, and add things in that didn’t occur to you initially. And at this time, when you’re not preoccupied with telling the story, your mind will be more available for worrying about descriptions and mood-setting.
Same thing with momentum. It’s a rare story where you’re able to write the whole first draft without it feeling like it drags here and there. Revision is the fixing-time.
Finally: a good beta. Priceless.
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