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This is pretty much for everyone, but I am curious as to what tips everyone may have at improving their writing. I ask because I find my writing is the same and I would like to improve.
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...it's a start. Also, read something, anything, that is totally outside of your comfort level or your usual taste. Like a work out, you gotta change it up.
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...it's a start. Also, read something, anything, that is totally outside of your comfort level or your usual taste. Like a work out, you gotta change it up.
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Ummm... one of the things I've had to do, is I like writing longerish stories. I mean when in my writing opinion, twelve to fifteen pages is a wham bam- quickie story... I know I can be overly descriptive and the devil might be in the details, but when I ask for someone to critique my work, their biggest complaint is... it is amazing only it is very long!!!
I challenge myself.
I open Windows, and I must write a short story, one page no more. From start to finish. I have gotten better, where my latest (see link in signature line, Sharing is Caring at Work) is about sixish pages. This is one of the writing exercises I do every couple of days. I've not yet been able to get just one page, but it is something I am working on.
The other to practice describing things, is to take an object, the knock it off my table. And I must describe in detail how it happened, the end result, looks, sounded etc...
As to improving the storyline itself? I am not sure how to help you there. People claim my brain is dark and twisty as the stories I prefer to write never seem to follow in any set path and at times echoes reality. I find that the more I explore my sexuality and being able to speak more openly about it (soooo.... am I sweet or slutty???? tee hee heee I soooo couldn't help myself!!!) also changes the path of my stories as well.
Read lots, and lots and lots and lots. If you can, get in touch with an author you enjoy and ask for their help where you need work in your writing. Just be careful, many people will just blow sunshine up your arse telling you it is a good read.
I challenge myself.
I open Windows, and I must write a short story, one page no more. From start to finish. I have gotten better, where my latest (see link in signature line, Sharing is Caring at Work) is about sixish pages. This is one of the writing exercises I do every couple of days. I've not yet been able to get just one page, but it is something I am working on.
The other to practice describing things, is to take an object, the knock it off my table. And I must describe in detail how it happened, the end result, looks, sounded etc...
As to improving the storyline itself? I am not sure how to help you there. People claim my brain is dark and twisty as the stories I prefer to write never seem to follow in any set path and at times echoes reality. I find that the more I explore my sexuality and being able to speak more openly about it (soooo.... am I sweet or slutty???? tee hee heee I soooo couldn't help myself!!!) also changes the path of my stories as well.
Read lots, and lots and lots and lots. If you can, get in touch with an author you enjoy and ask for their help where you need work in your writing. Just be careful, many people will just blow sunshine up your arse telling you it is a good read.
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Hard to say. I'm having a hard time myself. Writers block
Well that's just my opinion, sorry if you don't like.
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Write about what you know. Experience is key. Even the simplest scenario can be interesting and arousing.
This not to say you need to go out and fuck everything in sight. Writing evolves with the writer and is interesting in this way. A story of self touch and exploration is a good place to start. This can take you to places you know about and fill your head with fantasy which is interesting as well : )
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
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This not to say you need to go out and fuck everything in sight. Writing evolves with the writer and is interesting in this way. A story of self touch and exploration is a good place to start. This can take you to places you know about and fill your head with fantasy which is interesting as well : )
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
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This is pretty much for everyone, but I am curious as to what tips everyone may have at improving their writing. I ask because I find my writing is the same and I would like to improve.
Flip out your credit card, purchase half the inventory at your local liquor store, drive to New Jersey and spend the next month with DirtyMartini.
You will be changed after that, I guarantee ya. He'll have you cranking out a new story every three days! You'll probably amaze yourself with your new found talents at writing love poetry too!
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Actually Daniel, I think Mr. WellMade makes a lot of sense...
Nylo, when you get in town with the liquor truck give me a call...
It's amazing how your writing seems to improve after a few drinks...heck, you might just decide the whole writing thing is over-rated...
But, like WellMade says...get the liquor first and give me a call...
Nylo, when you get in town with the liquor truck give me a call...
It's amazing how your writing seems to improve after a few drinks...heck, you might just decide the whole writing thing is over-rated...
But, like WellMade says...get the liquor first and give me a call...
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It's amazing how your writing seems to improve after a few drinks...heck, you might just decide the whole writing thing is over-rated...
But, like WellMade says...get the liquor first and give me a call...
I'm down with that, fuck-a-bunch of this writing shit. That's too much like - work.
My right arm has muscle memory control and, I have no gag reflex when throwing back cold brews - that's fun!
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Practice sculpting my story helps me get better! A bit geeky but I have started to read through the dictionary working my way through the all the words I decided to start at A, and write my own symbols for new words I don't know, words that I know but need to understand more. I also like to read about grammar trying to drum in what I still can't remember off the cuff!
I've recently been having to take Maths lessons at college for a NVQ I'm doing, and I've started to notice this makes my brain really alert after the lesson, I'm starting think there is a connection from getting a good maths lesson and creativity in writing!!! I'm enjoying how alert I feel after doing an 1hr and 30 mins of maths!!!
I've recently been having to take Maths lessons at college for a NVQ I'm doing, and I've started to notice this makes my brain really alert after the lesson, I'm starting think there is a connection from getting a good maths lesson and creativity in writing!!! I'm enjoying how alert I feel after doing an 1hr and 30 mins of maths!!!
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I have started to read through the dictionary working my way through the all the words I decided to start at A,
Hmmm...read any good books lately? Between that and math books, no wonder you're forgetting what site you're on...
Try using all the words in the dictionary in a story or poem, preferably in order...that should be a good writing exercise to get the old creative juices in order...
If that doesn't work, try writing up a fantasy about your Polish cleaner Agatha...and then write about her reaction when you read it back to her...
I hope we've been helpful here...
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I would welcome a shapely feminine, Polish, polish cleaning, right about now.
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... I'm starting think there is a connection from getting a good maths lesson and creativity in writing...
Wait until you start solving triple integrals in spherical coordinates! Then you can think about your stories three dimensionally.
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Just the thought of solving triple integrals is enough to make me want to go write a sex story...
And Btw Nylo...in case you're looking for a serious answer, you may want to check out some of the more serious writing sites...not that Lush isn't, but you know, it's not quite as dedicated to writing as some...
Here are some starts...Writing.com has everything writing related, if you can find it...they also have an erotica writers newsletter and a Love/Romance newsletter, among other things...
http://www.writing.com/?i=1
WritersResources.com has a lot of writing stuff as well...at least that's what it says over in the forum on StoriesSpace, Lush's sister site...
http://www.writersresources.com/
Finally, there are a lot of writing blogs on the net with tips and you can post questions to professional writers, like this one on LinkedIn...
http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?searchQuestions=&fromEmail=&gid=1780627&trk=EML_anet_ques_hm
The good news is that if you actually try to read all this stuff you'll know everything there is about writing...
The bad news is that if you actually try to read all this stuff...you'll never have time to write...
And Btw Nylo...in case you're looking for a serious answer, you may want to check out some of the more serious writing sites...not that Lush isn't, but you know, it's not quite as dedicated to writing as some...
Here are some starts...Writing.com has everything writing related, if you can find it...they also have an erotica writers newsletter and a Love/Romance newsletter, among other things...
http://www.writing.com/?i=1
WritersResources.com has a lot of writing stuff as well...at least that's what it says over in the forum on StoriesSpace, Lush's sister site...
http://www.writersresources.com/
Finally, there are a lot of writing blogs on the net with tips and you can post questions to professional writers, like this one on LinkedIn...
http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?searchQuestions=&fromEmail=&gid=1780627&trk=EML_anet_ques_hm
The good news is that if you actually try to read all this stuff you'll know everything there is about writing...
The bad news is that if you actually try to read all this stuff...you'll never have time to write...
You know you want it, you know you need it bad...get it now on Amazon.com...
Lush Erotica, an Anthology of Award Winning Sex Stories
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Actually Daniel, I think Mr. WellMade makes a lot of sense...
Nylo, when you get in town with the liquor truck give me a call...
It's amazing how your writing seems to improve after a few drinks...heck, you might just decide the whole writing thing is over-rated...
But, like WellMade says...get the liquor first and give me a call...
Having just returned from a meeting with my accountant at a Karaoke bar, downing four pints as he poured over (not on, thankfully) our papers, I'm starting to see things much more clearly. Check. Liquor first, uh...what's next? Oh, yea. Comedy.
What's the proper order of the rest of it? Writing? Sex? How's it s'posed to go?
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