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January 28th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
So another writer can’t give tips or talk about writing if they haven’t been published? Again, you haven’t talked about any sites you know that are better. So I’m going to assume you’re just looking for lulz but more power to you. Good luck with your writing.
January 28th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Actually,
Very few of the writers on AW are published. They do however like to give advice and a ton of it is nonsense. Like listening to obese people teach others how to diet.
January 28th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
There’s better? And yet you neglect to let people know of these ‘better’ websites?
Considering many of the writers on AW are published, either through books or magazines, etc., I don’t know if I’d completely avoid a site based on that the majority are working on becoming writers. Your venom against AW though seems to linger from something else perhaps?
Any thoughts?
January 28th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Absolutewrite sucks. It is mostly failed writers critiquing others. Jenna started that site to sell her crap. Very few of those writers are successful. I would BEWARE of any advice they give you on the forums. I never read such terrible writing before in my life, and yet they think they can teach others. There are better sites than Absolute Write.
January 28th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
very very cute, practical, and sweet…thanks for a great little helper. it’s actually very motivating as well. could you do one on narrative voices? I’m having a little trouble knowing what I can use .. don’t want to do first person through the whole thing. flashbacks seem ok for using dialogue i guess present is too.. but any tips on when and how to switch?
January 28th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Sorry, I was directing that last comment to Zezerat21. I know I clicked on the reply button next to his name, but my comment posted at the top of the page anyway. Oh, well.
But regardless, Yes. You should try reading books that originally became popular because they were well written with a firm story. Dean Koontz is an excellent writer, try reading some of his works and drawing your examples from him. I recommend The Taking, The House of Thunder, and Velocity.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
It could be that you are being exposed to mostly boring books. This is probably the case if you are getting your resources from your high school library.
Try reading some Dean Koontz.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
I’m writing a book too, I don’t know who it would be for but I’m thirteen. Based on a teenager in a fiction world. I added an element to the four basic elements of nature. Death. He becomes the Death Guardian (The Guardians keep order.)I’ve got a plot line for it all the way to the end of the last book in the series. It has magic, swords, violence, blood. The ending of the first book might actually be shocking to some people if I ever get it published.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
That’s like being a director without ever seeing a movie. You have to have a passion for the medium itself otherwise you might as well be a comic/manga artist. All you’ll need to write is speech bubbles.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
i dream of being a great writer, but i personally hate reading most books except for comics and manga
January 28th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
that would be a young adults your looking at then.
January 28th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
I’m a writer too, when you get a new idea don’t go work on it. Just very quickly type a plot line and save it in a special folder.
Oh, and Pixle, do you use AW? if you do what’s your user name.
i use the same one every where. may have seen me actually.
January 28th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
I used to procrastinate too, but now I always put off procrastination until tomorrow.
January 28th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
When your writing one story, you seriously have to forgot about other ones and keep focused on the one your developing. otherwise you’ll never finished
January 28th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
*sigh* Me too. And I always know how it starts and how it ends, but I can’t figure out the middle.
January 28th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
i love writing but i never seem to b able to finish a book because i keep getting new ideas and starting them and leaveing the old ones
January 28th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Ah…
Thank you very much for those links.
January 28th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
I love writing medieval adventure fiction, but it’s too short to be an adult science ficttion/adventure novel and it has too much violence and language to be a childrens book!
January 28th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Huh? How can you check out this video if you’ve got your internet off?
And I agree with you, imagination and research are important for writing. Plagiarizing sucks.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
2 mins of my life am never getting back, how can you check out the website listed with the Internet turned off.
Writing come from the imagination not by reading/copying other peoples works!
January 28th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
That’s cool. That should really help on a writing website and something like that. Like your own writing help website. You should put that on a front page or something. Share it in your blogs…
GREAT JOB!
Really awesome angles and shots!
January 28th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
i’ll rember this