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noriaki-kak · 1 year ago

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Hewo,,,,I was wondering if you had any writings tips! Where did you learn your craft? Do you have a favourite author?

Ooh man, my answers to this are probably gonna be kinda disappointing ghfgd. I’m pretty much entirely self taught for fun and I don’t read as much as I wish I did nowadays. I like to try and match the way I write to the time period the scene’s setting is closest to. So a lot of my stuff ends up sounding flowery and old fashioned.

I’ve been wanting to find the time to start reading more because that’s one of the best ways to refine how you write, seeing what other people are doing. But for now, what I do is just look back at things I wrote a while ago and pick apart what I like and don’t like about it and what I wanna do with that in the future. It’s easier once you get some distance from something to look at it objectively.

I’m honored you’d think to ask but I’m truly the worst person to give tips bc I barely know what im doing gjfgd. I feel confident in writing character scenes with heightened intense emotions but everything else is a bit of a struggle. And I’m not even sure how to put into words what my process is even for the stuff I’m confident with.

#I tried thinking of some advice I could give but everything boiled down to ‘this is just kinda how my brain works’#LIKE EVERY TIME I STARTED TO TYPE SOMETHING OUT IT WAS FEELING VERY ‘Hey have any tips on how to win the race?’#’Heh of course… simply run very fast.’ gjfgdg #when I write I sit down in front of the computer and just groove #and at the end I’m either like #Woah this is neat #or #ough what is this #EVEN BASIC STUFF LIKE ‘don’t be afraid to be very descriptive!’#sometimes that Doesn’t pan out for me so I’d also say #‘don’t be afraid to keep it simple!’#the only other thing I’d say is that for the sake of the feeling of the scene don’t be afraid to break a few punctuation rules #but that’s easy for me to say #I barely know the rules in the first place fjfhsg #very good at vocabulary….absorb new words like a sponge #still not sure how to use a semi colon even though I’ve probably looked it up hundreds of times at this point #THANK YOU FOR ASKING THOUGH!!! sorry for the janky answer #once I’ve got the time to really get back into reading I’ll let you know who my favorite author ends up being

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