Post 9y3HomTDKJH5bEa7nc by Ellteo@mastodon.art
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(DIR) Post #9y3G482jCZfuwSNrKC by Ellteo@mastodon.art
2020-08-12T16:22:38Z
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I've been trying to write since last night and dhfnfbdhdmdjrhdbsksbdbdudjcncEverything feels so stale but if I don't keep an eye on myself i tend to ramble pretty badly and end up waxing poetic about the sound of shoes on concrete or something small and stupid like thatMaybe I should look up some guides for writing scenes.....I feel like I don't know what I'm doing or what I'm going for anymore w/r/t my writing and that is an Issue
(DIR) Post #9y3HolxJEvko0Hee4O by InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space
2020-08-12T16:29:16.169Z
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@Ellteo@mastodon.art hey i love giving writing advice can i help
(DIR) Post #9y3HomTDKJH5bEa7nc by Ellteo@mastodon.art
2020-08-12T16:42:12Z
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@InspectorCaracal god by all means yes NDBDBDI have a hard time writing scenes bc Idk how to like....plan? Out a scene? So I just kinda write blindly. I don't plan like anything which makes everything far more difficult, I think LMAO
(DIR) Post #9y3KKBmVTCegzCi52m by InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space
2020-08-12T16:55:00.219Z
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@Ellteo@mastodon.art oh man, planning has been My Bane, I have spent literally ten years on it lmaookay so bear with me a sec because you're gonna probably make a face about this, but, if you ever learned how to outline an essay/paper for school? planning out and outlining fiction actually works basically the same wayi like to work top down from the overall story to individual scenes, but the relevant part i think for the scene-planning specifically is that each scene basically has One Thing
(DIR) Post #9y3KKD7oTTID9ZgbtQ by InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space
2020-08-12T16:57:14.937Z
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@Ellteo@mastodon.art so like, when you sit down to do a scene, you think, okay, what is the thing that happens in this scene? what's the important bitand then the scene itself is all built around that one important bit. setting up anything that needs to be in place for that one thing, writing out the events and implications and developments that are within that one thing, and then wrapping up that one thing enough to move on to the next thing
(DIR) Post #9y3KKEH4CYHyiZ1VxI by InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space
2020-08-12T17:00:09.547Z
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@Ellteo@mastodon.art everything else about writing a scene is basically a matter of style, which means it's subjective and there's no real right or wrong way to do it.i.e. your comment about waxing poetic about the sound of shoes on concrete, like, there's nothing inherently bad about it, it's just that you gotta ask yourself, do I want this here? do I like how it feels? it could for example be a great way to build the tone of a scene as part of your set-up
(DIR) Post #9y3KKGDayQhUkNPlp2 by Ellteo@mastodon.art
2020-08-12T17:10:19Z
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@InspectorCaracal you have a point 🤔 This seems like it should be obvious but a lot of it just never really occurred to me nzbfBFJD TYsm for the help????
(DIR) Post #9y5V5nyIgX94toURW4 by gold_pen_leaps@tenforward.social
2020-08-13T18:11:26Z
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@EllteoI really like the book Make A Scene by Rosenfeld. There's a list of elements that make up a scene, and how to use each element. There's a description of different types of scenes in a story. There are chapters dedicated to the beginning, middle, and end of a scene, and what the purpose of each third is.
(DIR) Post #9y5V5oS4toxsOAQDvk by Ellteo@mastodon.art
2020-08-13T18:20:27Z
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@gold_pen_leaps oooh that sounds super helpful! >:Oc I’ll have to give that a look...