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Monday, February 25, 2013
Praise for Perfect World
Editing: How To & Process
I am going to edit the first 2 chapters of Perfect World tonight and I figure that I might as well just go ahead and make a blog post about it.
I start of editing by going through the chapter with spell check and grammar check. If you use Microsoft Word then all you have to do is click the book that wither has an x or a check-mark and it takes you to your mistakes. I go through and correct everything with that as I write, which helps a lot because I can find if I accidentally used singular instead of plural or something along those lines.
After that, I read through and correct everything I want. If I find a sentence that doesn't quite make sense, or something else like so: "Yeah," he said. "we need to be careful." that the Grammar Checker doesn't get then I will correct those too.
After that, I read through again and revise/rewrite all of the parts that I think I can write better and then I edit what I revised/rewrote.
Then I read through again and make sure everything is in working order, no plot-holes or anything and I have all of my world-building facts right and character names and such.
And then I'm done!
I start of editing by going through the chapter with spell check and grammar check. If you use Microsoft Word then all you have to do is click the book that wither has an x or a check-mark and it takes you to your mistakes. I go through and correct everything with that as I write, which helps a lot because I can find if I accidentally used singular instead of plural or something along those lines.
After that, I read through and correct everything I want. If I find a sentence that doesn't quite make sense, or something else like so: "Yeah," he said. "we need to be careful." that the Grammar Checker doesn't get then I will correct those too.
After that, I read through again and revise/rewrite all of the parts that I think I can write better and then I edit what I revised/rewrote.
Then I read through again and make sure everything is in working order, no plot-holes or anything and I have all of my world-building facts right and character names and such.
And then I'm done!
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Writing Tips from Me
Here I shall just list some writing tips you can have from me and then talk a little about each tip.
1. Write a lot. I don't know how much I've heard someone say, "Ooh, I don't have time to write." Well, that's simple, make time. I started writing when I was 7, but I didn't get good at it until the summer of 2012, where I wrote a story called Feed which got a lot of positive reviews on a creative writing site I got on at the time, but now, since I've written about 18 stories and I've finished one book since then, I can say that I am publishing worthy.
2. Finish your work. I am a bit of a hypocrite here because I NEVER finish anything I write. I have only finished the first draft of one book, which is The Risen and I wrote it for NaNoWriMo 2012. Here's a list of stories I've just stopped writing to write something else:
I wrote a book called Blackout about zombies in the 7th grade, last year, and I planned to write a sequel but I sucked at writing at the moment, though I finished it at 15,000 words and about 18 chapters. I stopped writing the sequel to Blackout, which I had named Whiteout to start a lousy series called The Seven Sanctums, which was seven books in one series. I wrote 9,000 words and 8 chapters of the first book and then quit for another zombie trilogy called The Quarantine Trilogy. I finished the first book of that at 20,000 words and about 20 chapters but I never edited or anything. Then I quit that to write another trilogy which I called The Exile Trilogy. I wrote the first chapter of the first book and then stopped, waiting a few weeks before starting up on Feed, which was a vampire story. I got to 17,000 words and chapter 20-something and then I just stopped. Then I started up on a story about aliens called Banshee, which I got to 7,000-8,000 words and then deleted it. I then started a story called Survive, which I wrote to about 9,000 words and then quit for a while (I will come back to that later). Then I wrote 9,000 words and 7 chapters of a story I was told to write called From the Ashes We have Risen. I then stopped writing that for some mystical reason and then wrote a short 10,000 word story called Ancient World, I finished the first draft of that and never edited. I wrote a Hunger Games fan fiction that was called The Runner at first, but I later changed the title to Surviving the Games and then I wrote 6,000-10,000 words and just stopped. Then about a month later I started a two-part thriller called Righteous and Vicious. I wrote the first chapter of each, which they kind of counter each other. Vicious is about a murderer and Righteous is about a cop trying to solve the crime. Then I just stopped that to pick up Survive where I left off and didn't really go anywhere, while I wrote a story called The Fall of Troy about a kid named Troy who is bullied to death. I think I wrote about the first 1,000 words and decided against it because I couldn't connect because I have never been bullied much. After that I opened a story called Kidnapped and I wrote the first 2,000 words to it and stopped. After that I picked back up on Feed for a moment then I turned to The Risen which I finished at barley over 50,000 words then I shut it away (the manuscript is right beside me). Then I started back up on The Seven Sanctums, which I actually got to the fourth chapter at 9,000 words and clever thorough outlining and then I stopped to open The Exile Trilogy again and write The Ice Queen, which is the first book in that series. I stopped The Ice Queen for a couple weeks to work on Survive, which I restarted and got to 11,000 and put on halt again recently to write The Ice Queen again, which is in progress.
As you can see by that long-winded explanation, I absolutely cannot finish a book at all.
3. Read. I don't read a lot of books, because I'm really slow, but I read more than the average person (which nowadays is just more than a book your teacher tells you to read). I've read a couple books this year, mostly Adult, some are The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, Dreamcatcher and Full Dark, No Stars and I am reading 11/22/63 by Stephen King, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, and White Horse by Alex Adams. There's only one thing to be said about this;
"If you want to be like the greats, you gotta read the greats."
4. Enjoy your writing. If you write and you're like me, while you're in the process of typing out those words your mind is like, "Oh my god this is so amazing I can't even fanboy/fangirl enough about this." BUT (yes, there is a but), once you read over it, even if you're not done writing, you're mind is suddenly like, "How could I have written this atrocity?! START AGAIN." You have to fight those urges to start all over on a clean slate, you get nowhere by erasing all of your progress. Just remember that instead of erasing you can just edit your work.
5.Lastly, let others enjoy your writing. You can't know what you're doing wrong if people don't tell you. This is a big issue in my life because I let people read my work and they don't give serious feedback. They say, "Oh it's amazing I really like it..." but they never go into detail about what they like about it and they never have anything relatively 'negative' to say about it. If there's one thing I know about getting better at writing, it's that (purely as a way to get better and improve) a writer wants negative reviews on their books or stories. Now, I'm not talking a review like, "Omg this sucked plz write a new version of the book it was horrible and i am disgusted." I'm talking something like, "This was a novel I wasn't very pleased to read. It didn't come to my expectations because I thought that [insert critique of story element here] and that you could just [insert suggestion here] but overall I think that the story needed a bit more [description/back-story/explanation/character development,etc]
That's all I have for today!
1. Write a lot. I don't know how much I've heard someone say, "Ooh, I don't have time to write." Well, that's simple, make time. I started writing when I was 7, but I didn't get good at it until the summer of 2012, where I wrote a story called Feed which got a lot of positive reviews on a creative writing site I got on at the time, but now, since I've written about 18 stories and I've finished one book since then, I can say that I am publishing worthy.
2. Finish your work. I am a bit of a hypocrite here because I NEVER finish anything I write. I have only finished the first draft of one book, which is The Risen and I wrote it for NaNoWriMo 2012. Here's a list of stories I've just stopped writing to write something else:
I wrote a book called Blackout about zombies in the 7th grade, last year, and I planned to write a sequel but I sucked at writing at the moment, though I finished it at 15,000 words and about 18 chapters. I stopped writing the sequel to Blackout, which I had named Whiteout to start a lousy series called The Seven Sanctums, which was seven books in one series. I wrote 9,000 words and 8 chapters of the first book and then quit for another zombie trilogy called The Quarantine Trilogy. I finished the first book of that at 20,000 words and about 20 chapters but I never edited or anything. Then I quit that to write another trilogy which I called The Exile Trilogy. I wrote the first chapter of the first book and then stopped, waiting a few weeks before starting up on Feed, which was a vampire story. I got to 17,000 words and chapter 20-something and then I just stopped. Then I started up on a story about aliens called Banshee, which I got to 7,000-8,000 words and then deleted it. I then started a story called Survive, which I wrote to about 9,000 words and then quit for a while (I will come back to that later). Then I wrote 9,000 words and 7 chapters of a story I was told to write called From the Ashes We have Risen. I then stopped writing that for some mystical reason and then wrote a short 10,000 word story called Ancient World, I finished the first draft of that and never edited. I wrote a Hunger Games fan fiction that was called The Runner at first, but I later changed the title to Surviving the Games and then I wrote 6,000-10,000 words and just stopped. Then about a month later I started a two-part thriller called Righteous and Vicious. I wrote the first chapter of each, which they kind of counter each other. Vicious is about a murderer and Righteous is about a cop trying to solve the crime. Then I just stopped that to pick up Survive where I left off and didn't really go anywhere, while I wrote a story called The Fall of Troy about a kid named Troy who is bullied to death. I think I wrote about the first 1,000 words and decided against it because I couldn't connect because I have never been bullied much. After that I opened a story called Kidnapped and I wrote the first 2,000 words to it and stopped. After that I picked back up on Feed for a moment then I turned to The Risen which I finished at barley over 50,000 words then I shut it away (the manuscript is right beside me). Then I started back up on The Seven Sanctums, which I actually got to the fourth chapter at 9,000 words and clever thorough outlining and then I stopped to open The Exile Trilogy again and write The Ice Queen, which is the first book in that series. I stopped The Ice Queen for a couple weeks to work on Survive, which I restarted and got to 11,000 and put on halt again recently to write The Ice Queen again, which is in progress.
As you can see by that long-winded explanation, I absolutely cannot finish a book at all.
3. Read. I don't read a lot of books, because I'm really slow, but I read more than the average person (which nowadays is just more than a book your teacher tells you to read). I've read a couple books this year, mostly Adult, some are The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, Dreamcatcher and Full Dark, No Stars and I am reading 11/22/63 by Stephen King, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, and White Horse by Alex Adams. There's only one thing to be said about this;
"If you want to be like the greats, you gotta read the greats."
4. Enjoy your writing. If you write and you're like me, while you're in the process of typing out those words your mind is like, "Oh my god this is so amazing I can't even fanboy/fangirl enough about this." BUT (yes, there is a but), once you read over it, even if you're not done writing, you're mind is suddenly like, "How could I have written this atrocity?! START AGAIN." You have to fight those urges to start all over on a clean slate, you get nowhere by erasing all of your progress. Just remember that instead of erasing you can just edit your work.
5.Lastly, let others enjoy your writing. You can't know what you're doing wrong if people don't tell you. This is a big issue in my life because I let people read my work and they don't give serious feedback. They say, "Oh it's amazing I really like it..." but they never go into detail about what they like about it and they never have anything relatively 'negative' to say about it. If there's one thing I know about getting better at writing, it's that (purely as a way to get better and improve) a writer wants negative reviews on their books or stories. Now, I'm not talking a review like, "Omg this sucked plz write a new version of the book it was horrible and i am disgusted." I'm talking something like, "This was a novel I wasn't very pleased to read. It didn't come to my expectations because I thought that [insert critique of story element here] and that you could just [insert suggestion here] but overall I think that the story needed a bit more [description/back-story/explanation/character development,etc]
That's all I have for today!
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Factors of a Great Novel
I don't do much writing tips, so here I shall just steal 5-6 writing tips from someone else.
Videos by Katytastic on Youtube.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
A Blog About Literature
Hello guys! how have you been without me? Did you miss me?
Here, since I'vent updated anything since my last blog, I'm just going to dedicate this blog to my writing and reading.
So, let's start of with my reading in case you don't want to hear my narcissism.
I'm currently reading:
The Red Pyramid, Rick Riordan. My thoughts: I really enjoy all of Rick Riordan's books. He is such a fantastic author. But the Kane Chronicles is by far the best of all of his series, I think.
11/22/63, Stephen King. My thoughts: I love Stephen King, I even call myself 'the future Stephen King' just to prove my enjoyment of him and my passion for writing. This one is about the assassination of a president, I think. I'm not very far in it--only chapter two. It's amazing so far.
Now, time for my writing! :D
New Project: Indigo. This is about 3 kids and 3 ghosts. The ghosts are Abigail Smith, a 1st lady, I forget his name, but he was someone who was against abolishing slavery during the Civil War because he didn't believe in abolishing things, and president Nixon. As they go throughout the story, the 3 ghosts lead the kids to several battle sites across America and uncover a sting of deceit committed by the American government. So far I have about 2.5K words.
Perfect World. I'm not sure if I've told you about this, but it's kind of a long concept, so I'm just going to assume I have. I am at 4K words and I have finished chapter 2, working on 3.
The Ice Queen. I don't know if you know this, but in late January I took a break from it. Now I'm starting it back up again. I am currently at 11K words, and working on chapter four.
thanks, bye.
Here, since I'vent updated anything since my last blog, I'm just going to dedicate this blog to my writing and reading.
So, let's start of with my reading in case you don't want to hear my narcissism.
I'm currently reading:
The Red Pyramid, Rick Riordan. My thoughts: I really enjoy all of Rick Riordan's books. He is such a fantastic author. But the Kane Chronicles is by far the best of all of his series, I think.
11/22/63, Stephen King. My thoughts: I love Stephen King, I even call myself 'the future Stephen King' just to prove my enjoyment of him and my passion for writing. This one is about the assassination of a president, I think. I'm not very far in it--only chapter two. It's amazing so far.
Now, time for my writing! :D
New Project: Indigo. This is about 3 kids and 3 ghosts. The ghosts are Abigail Smith, a 1st lady, I forget his name, but he was someone who was against abolishing slavery during the Civil War because he didn't believe in abolishing things, and president Nixon. As they go throughout the story, the 3 ghosts lead the kids to several battle sites across America and uncover a sting of deceit committed by the American government. So far I have about 2.5K words.
Perfect World. I'm not sure if I've told you about this, but it's kind of a long concept, so I'm just going to assume I have. I am at 4K words and I have finished chapter 2, working on 3.
The Ice Queen. I don't know if you know this, but in late January I took a break from it. Now I'm starting it back up again. I am currently at 11K words, and working on chapter four.
thanks, bye.
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