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TiredI have noticed my writing hasn't been giving the attention it deserves. So to answer any questions about it i have written this little nifty journal right here!!! (sorry if i have any misspelled words but i figure since it's a journal and not any of my art i figured i dont wana spellcheck and instead keep it original and sorry if it gets confusing)
I tend to take my writing seriously and i put rhym (sometimes litterally) and reason into everything i write and with everything i write i usually end it with a twist and a moral. For example:
on Flight of Heaven the main character gets awesome cool powers of flight and then realizes he can't remember his life and when he finally does remember he is struck with infanite wisdom and it is then the reader realizes the main character is dead and is actually flying to heaven.
I write to show a few things:
1) To show that just because life sucks and just because no one accepts you, that's no reason to turn away from your beliefs (God).
2)I also write to entertain and to show a different side of writing. Just read Storm of man, or even Girl of My Dreams. Those two pieces are my first two and they are very different (i feel) then any other writing i've read because you learn as you go along and the ending is unknown until you reach the end.
I started writing about 5 (8th grade) years ago on a book called Dream World. I never got to finish that book but along the way (towards 10th 11th grade) i started to take this book seriously. As i grew older i realized it's quite hard to write a book and suddenly everyone reads it and that's why i joined DA (also i wanted to look at a certain girl's work and favorite it but that's another story all on its own) was to gain a foothold on the world so i can at least gain some recognition by the time I'm out of college (4 or 5 years). Right now i want to strengthen my use of details and find my type of story genre.
Right now in my writing a few of my strengths are certain imagery. What i mean by certain imagery is i can describe a dark story fairly well, but when it come to happy bouncy stories i tend to flop cause i don't know many 'good feeling' describing words and as a result Flight of Heaven turned out not the way i wanted it to.
A big weakness i have is consistancy, and fluency i think. With poems i can think of something and try to describe it but it doesn't seem to come out right For example on Shooting Star (my favorited poem) im trying to convey a dark calm peaceful night on the first half and then an explosion with a shooting star appearing and fading on the second half. I don't feel that it's fluid enough and the lines don't seem to connect very well with eachother (you see a trouble with fluidity in the Storm of Man as well when it jumps from past to future but then again the main character is a lunatic so i use that as an excuse but in reality i just wasn't very good at beig fluid)
What i most want to improve on at this point is choosing really good word usage (not wordy and by using really good imagery words that pack a large punch with the details) and being able to let my audience easily follow and know what i'm writing and why im writing it without any doubt in the end. Which i think is quite difficult to fix sometimes.
In the end it is very difficult for me to figure out what i need to improve on. I dont want to advertise my writing and tell you to write what you think i'm good at and what you think i'm bad at but in the end that is why i joined, so people could read and give me hints and tips on what i can do differently. So although i really hate doing this, just read a few of my works just so i know what my main weaknesses are and my strengths are because truthfully it's hard for me to annalyze my own writing when nobody gives me feedback that i can use and work with.
If you don't read or give feedback to me that would be ok, you dont have to. If you just respond to this and give me just some basic hints that would be cool too. Thank you Writers-Workshop for listening I REALLY appreciate it
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Strong verbs. Cut the adverbs and adjectives and use stronger, more vibrant verbs. It takes some getting used to, and a thesaurus really helps!
Also, using the five senses is helpful. It really grounds what your trying to describe in reality--even though it isn't real. It seems more real and vivid if the reader can associate with a smell or taste or touch that you're describing.
A simile or metaphor can be good, if it's original. I have trouble with those, but sometimes they just come to me.
Hope that helps a little. Mainly, just keep at it. Read lots about writing, read a lot of fiction and poetry, watch movies and TV, research anything you find interesting, and pay attention to people. All that helps you build a knowledge base, and there's nothing more valuable than life experience.
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ya i keep thinking to put in the five senses but then when i write i totally forget or i just can't find a good place to put it in.
That does help a lot and thanks
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Consistency is often an issue, and it seems to be a common one for the people who took part. As far as fluency goes, be sure to connect the ideas from one to the next. As you said of that one poem, it goes from calm to explosion, but if the audience is far enough away, this would look like a gradual change.
"What i most want to improve on at this point is choosing really good word usage"
Read a lot. You will pick up words by reading what people write. Read the classics. Read more modern stuff. Read anything and everything in between. You'll pick up a lot that way. Go to freerice.com, even. You'll pick up words almost subconsciously.
I'm afraid I'm not able to sit and read your works at the moment, but when I get back from vacation, I will try my best to. Thank you for taking part in details week!
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The cool thing about description is that you can always add to it later. I do that a lot, actually. Don't worry about it too much and just get the story out first, then go back to the weak parts and beef them up.
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But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure and full of quiet gentleness. Then it is peace-loving and courteous. It allows discussion and is willing to yield to others; it is full of mercy and good deeds. James 3:17
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