Sunday, March 15, 2015

Inspiration To Start Writing



Always write everything down you see and visualize on a subject immediately.  Micromanage subject areas with additional entries of words and phrases that may make your story more interesting. Take a notebook and study people, recollections of circumstances are inspiration for: setting, protagonist, antagonist in conflict with protagonist, narrative method, dialogue, conflict, mood/atmosphere, theme the central story idea.  Connect with your surroundings through: sight, sound, smell, taste, with a sense of feeling sun, snow or shadows to add realism having a purpose for story advancement.

Writing ideas that attract you may be uncomplicated.  A character idea may be the discovery of an everyday occurrence that develops profound effects outside the expected.  As a writer you are the captain of your ship and create the course of your story.

How a character thinks and talks in a descriptive presentation to other characters is your voice. The voice of a third person narrator is separate observing the story progress and not participating.  The writer expresses who the character is and why they act and interact.  Action is used to show how the event happened and its results.  Dialogue a clear natural movement of speech and how much further extraordinary the incident is; the more you are freed to come up with solutions and direction that make sense. Your story is about the incident and answers questions that develop from an incident.

Drive your protagonist into an unexpected transition with purpose through action, and notice the links fit into place.  Without over explanation from each characters perception, how did they get into their position and what course will achieve their resolution?  Each character type has dialogue to further their purpose.  A reader connects through dialogue in an experience enhanced with daily understood communication through speech.  In the course of dialogue for each character type there should be an understood connecting presentation.  Your story presentation is directed to the type of readers who may have an interest in your story.   

To write a novel planning and attention are needed.  Choose ideas important to you and that you’re interested in to share your writing.  Scenes are one technique to open your mind up to great novel writing ideas.  Think about novels you have read or films that gave you enjoyment and advanced your view of the world.  How did they direct you with new insight in a way that was profound?  List your favorites writing down what they have in common and their most interesting sections.  What your favorite stories have in common may be written in different genres. Literary fiction (in general is meaning,) is anything that does not fit into a genre fiction (more entertainment.)  Depending, literary and genre can be shared.  Not all publishers work with every genre.  Check books similar to your writing to understand classification.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Revision And Self-Editing For Publication Step By Step Technique Guide



Editing means make corrections to your own work before presentation.  Revise and edit the previous day’s work before writing anything new.  This revision allows you to follow flow and becomes the first draft.  Proofread using your computer spell check and at the same time with your own eyes spell check, keeping in mind word definition.  Spell check will not include everything.  Check the grammar for correct sentence construction and subject and verb agreement.  Contractions do not (don’t) always express correct grammatical constructions.  Correct constructions result in clarifying with longer descriptive sentences.  Keep in mind how the sentence is usually heard.  Write with complete sentences and vary the structure.  Computer save each change as it is made.  Make changes and save them when errors are seen, rather than an error being left out in a collection of punctuation to add.  Many various changes all saved at the same time can delete entire paragraphs and pages.

When the first draft is complete, then from beginning to end revise and edit the manuscript on your computer.  Major elements like plot, dialogue, and characterization (for fiction,) or structure, coherency, consistency, and organization (for non-fiction.)  This is the second draft and second time to write your book.

Print out a hard copy of the completed second draft of the manuscript.  From the beginning to the end use the margins to print hand notes.  These notes are to make the story detailed with depth in any needed areas for the edit.  Using the completed hand notes for reference, with computer entries adjust the notes into the manuscript to become the third draft.

Print out a new third draft and read your manuscript aloud from beginning to end.  While reading, take notes for attention to the following information.  Enough internal and the external conflict - the plot, the difference of voice for who is speaking in dialogue, growing likable characters evolving through stakes and what happens to them, your style - voice and special personality, keep up the pace without lag to turn pages, word count guidelines and are chapters approximately the same length.  Clarify and describe in any areas for improvement, rewrite or cut keeping the action.  Note down all thoughts and ideas at the time you have them.  With computer entry apply the notes to the manuscript for your fourth book writing.

After completely editing your work you may decide to hire an editor.  There are different editor titles with respect to their position description.  Depending on choice, do not rely on all editors to identify your work content as there could be clarification, or your voice loss.

There are many companies that can provide a list and explanation of their editing services.  The following is a partial list of editor job titles and duties that may vary.
Proofreading, line editing, copyediting, substantive - developmental - content editing, stylistic editing (without changing your voice,) manuscript critique (road map to help you revise,) book doctoring, ghostwriting, writing consulting.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Writing Scenes With Driving Action



Consequences of the character actions are history and position in the plot.  Driving the action are the characters personal motivations to begin taking action.  The challenge in the scene related to the plot continues building the characters development.

Obstacles build drama and add conflict; they are the opposition to the protagonists’ goals.  From the first chapter on, how life is seen and lived with conflict through the arc of the story is the theme and it is settled at the end.  Detail of description enhances conflict and is the writers’ expression of style and voice.

Stretch the emotional tension description between the characters response and action.  Description slows down a scene increasing the feeling.  A character’s response and action are to gain the goal without a loss.  Consequences may be unknown immediately instead of developed expectations and questions need to be justified and answered.  Unfolding or revealing action gives credibility for the readers understanding and interest.

In the first scene establish the protagonists’ key in character with a challenge for consequences.
Opposing dialogue creates conflict and tension in each characters own voice.  Movement is the activity of characters or their surroundings within a scene, the action for forward momentum.  Mobility of characters in an activity or active interaction with dialogue includes a reader in the scene.  A book should connect with readers and there are many interests, some may read for the company of your protagonist.

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

A Writers Personal Expression Is Distinct



Writing that comes from your experience is unique to you and no one can replace your life knowledge.  Finding your distinct style is the same, in the expression of events directing the reader to an exciting understanding.  Personal expression of the writer through these events, include the plot and deciding the mood.  Read similar books for techniques and inspiration for development not duplicating.  This helps a writer to generate new creative writing ideas and to become the best they have to be.

Decide the time to spend for a weekly writing schedule and follow through with it.  Connect with readers by adding purposes, anticipation and surprise.  As the source create characters to keep readers company and hold their attention.  Introduce the protagonist with history, faults or challenge, what they may bring and carry with them. Entering into the story the protagonist has a goal.  Story plot and inner conflict can keep the protagonist from attaining that goal.  Reveal the protagonists conflict and inner resistance.  How will your protagonist get past the sensitive situations or pressures to attain the goal?  With descriptive action and interaction what do the results reveal?  Of three emotional scenes, one with learned experience at or near the end, decide if the protagonist attains the goal.

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Protagonist Versus Antagonist - Made More Interesting In Literature



When there is tension in dialogue it is more interesting.  Tension can be created when pursuing or attracting someone and forcing their move toward or with the opposing force.  With conflict an essential basic element in a plot the antagonist opposes the protagonist then conflict and tension follow or occur as a result.

A loss resulting in harm is barely perceptible when there are big stakes and a solution is given to the protagonist.  When that solution is a life changing loss the protagonist or the main character is being manipulated by the antagonist as a villain (the bad guy,) and against whom a hero (the good guy) fights in order to help himself or give aid others.

The antagonist precedes arbitrarily with a theft even when that could cause an inner or a moral conflict inside his mind.  An antagonist usually will want to escape notice of their intentional removing to deprive of any type of property.  Ensuring their security of a position hidden or not as a type of recognized authority, and or possibly partially concealed by official documents in place.  Most antagonist promotion strategies could apply a documents context to any or all of their actions to reinforce their position as official.  An antagonist and his group identity’s shows qualities that are in contrast with qualities of the protagonist.  

Threats to result in harm done by a malicious antagonist are when the antagonist usually tries to ensure that someone else gets punishment.  Even a document could be used by the antagonist to stave off any punishment to avoid defeat or downfall.  The protagonist is forced to comply with arbitrary official document demands, a form of intimidation.  The antagonist struggles against the protagonist taking the plot to the crisis the major turning point.

The crisis is placed close to the conclusion.  The conclusion is the protagonist retains his worked for or earned belongings, such as home, vehicle, possessions and right to continue financial management.  The antagonist is no longer allowed access to literally sell and throw away belongings or the protagonist into the street as homeless.  The list of antagonist applicants to determine the protagonists’ financial management for gains to whatever areas hostile or not, with protagonist levels of learning could be left as a cliff hanger story end.  The applicants odious human trafficking continues in applied policy levels by official sanctioning and appointment.

What the protagonist understands and what the antagonist understands, does it come out in their conversation?  Does the antagonist interpret a response as criticism becoming indignant with whatever levels of education and or experience or point out documented text?

With the protagonist are his goals expressed versus the antagonist’s goals?  If responses are on the surface there are no layers of subtle meaning.  In real life people are not always open, honest, and or good at communication.

Characters could manipulate or evade, tell half-lies or lies of omissions or out-and-out lies. Do they misunderstand each other and or themselves?  Readers experience the scene through the viewpoint character's perceptions.