Category: literature

I think that if I can find my own voice and thus my confidence, this will propel me into the world of writing that I so want to be a part of

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I have learnt that authenticity is key. If I try to put on a ‘writers’ hat’ then this loses the credibility of my writing and therefore loses the engagement of the reader. At the start of the module, my work was overwritten with excessive details and phrases that I would put in to make myself sound sophisticated, which often had the opposite effect. My writing was cluttered and in parts did not make sense because of these phrases I was trying to add in.

https://blog362687242.wordpress.com/2020/12/09/aims-and-what-i-have-learnt-2

When I have a story that somehow forms in my head, it refuses to let go until I feed it and feed it until I need to write it down or I feel like I might burst, it’ll be all I can think about and in a way will just consume me

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I want to share that journey, and any other good reads I find along the way, here. So if you’d like to stick around and come along on the journey with me than I am glad to have you here!

https://shannonrgross.com/2020/11/22/hi-there

Cron suggests that stories fail when they are merely a series of events

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This happened and then this happened and then this happened. It’s like you telling me in boring detail how you drove to my house. Quite frankly, I don’t care how you got here, I just care that you’ve arrived safely.

Good stories keep moving you forward because something happens that leads to something else happening. There’s a causal relationship between events that connects them and makes sense to the reader. Everything happens for a reason, but sometimes it takes a while for that reason to be revealed.

The author’s job is to make you wonder what happened and why it happened.

https://margaretmoon.com/2020/11/22/how-stories-work

The piece flowed like unintended poetry and I decided to title it “Unscripted”

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Lately, I have once again had that “itch”- almost like a gnawing sensation – to thrust the entangled thoughts inside my head out on paper (or in this case in print) with the hopes that they will unravel. I have found the issue to be that I have too many things I want to say that I simply do not know where to start. I know I eventually want to write books but what about? Self help? Fiction? My life? I also have an issue with overthinking as you can see (and as do most people) So for now, I am just going to write when ever I feel that “itch” that “gnaw”. I am going to write what ever is in my head at that particular moment. It may not have a structure at first. It may just be a sentence here and there, but it is a start.

https://megunscripted.wordpress.com/2020/04/22/free-write