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As a new arrival here myself firstly, welcome to our little corner of the web.
It can be tough getting your first tale done so here's some advice I was given and some of my own.
1. When you're writing a story, turn everything distracting off and focus on the page or screen in front of you.
2. First attempt keep it short, my rule of thumb is write it in a single writing session. That way you're so focused on getting the story out that you aren't in your head overthinking it.
Spew it all out, with typos, bad grammar, awful layout, the whole deal. Now is not the time to be neat, so get it written down.
3. Take a break for a day or 2 then come back and read it again aloud to yourself. Add in bits you missed, take out bits that don't fit.
I found keeping a notepad window open so I could move sections of text out of the story to keep for something else, very helpful.
4. Run your draft through Grammarly to catch spelling, grammar and clarity. Make the changes you feel are right, then save it to your computer.
5. Get your editors hat on and go line by line through your story, if it doesn't carry its weight that line is being cut.
6. Check you've properly formatted the text so it's in paragraphs and not in one block.
7. Leave it a day and then edit again, being strict with the text.
8. Go to Rumps bar and say hello. There are loads of writers there and they're all friendly to new arrivals.
The point of this is to get to know the people who see the world the way you do.
Then go read their profile and try one of their stories. If you find people who write the way you'd like to it makes things a lot easier.
9. Bounce around the stories section and read lots of stuff, leave comments and find writers with a style you admire.
10. Ask one of them very nicely to run a red pencil through what you've written, beg them to be brutal and send back feedback.
11. Submit that lovely story and tell us all about it.
The reason I mention the getting to know people so often is that when I made my first submission I didn't have anyone to give it a kicking, so the poor story mods had to get sock puppets out and take me through the process of getting the damn thing verified.
Much stress, many tears, and a whole lot of swearing resulted. Poor curvy having to deal with all that.
My next one I sent to some of the writers I knew here to be properly brutal and as a result I'm expecting getting verified to be a lot easier this time.
Just some notes I wish I'd had when I started out here.
I highly recommend Rumps bar as a great place to meet folks, let off some steam and build your network.
I love this place, they really know how it feels to have writers block, a fickle muse, to feel that frustration when the next link in your story has fallen right out of your head leaving you spinning your wheels. Be as smart as you like, as dumb as you like, as serious or as silly just be yourself and join us on this crazy rollercoaster ride we call writing.
I'm off to the bar to cuddle Xander and flirt wildly with bunny.
Don't be shy, the first drink is on me.
Toodles.
It can be tough getting your first tale done so here's some advice I was given and some of my own.
1. When you're writing a story, turn everything distracting off and focus on the page or screen in front of you.
2. First attempt keep it short, my rule of thumb is write it in a single writing session. That way you're so focused on getting the story out that you aren't in your head overthinking it.
Spew it all out, with typos, bad grammar, awful layout, the whole deal. Now is not the time to be neat, so get it written down.
3. Take a break for a day or 2 then come back and read it again aloud to yourself. Add in bits you missed, take out bits that don't fit.
I found keeping a notepad window open so I could move sections of text out of the story to keep for something else, very helpful.
4. Run your draft through Grammarly to catch spelling, grammar and clarity. Make the changes you feel are right, then save it to your computer.
5. Get your editors hat on and go line by line through your story, if it doesn't carry its weight that line is being cut.
6. Check you've properly formatted the text so it's in paragraphs and not in one block.
7. Leave it a day and then edit again, being strict with the text.
8. Go to Rumps bar and say hello. There are loads of writers there and they're all friendly to new arrivals.
The point of this is to get to know the people who see the world the way you do.
Then go read their profile and try one of their stories. If you find people who write the way you'd like to it makes things a lot easier.
9. Bounce around the stories section and read lots of stuff, leave comments and find writers with a style you admire.
10. Ask one of them very nicely to run a red pencil through what you've written, beg them to be brutal and send back feedback.
11. Submit that lovely story and tell us all about it.
The reason I mention the getting to know people so often is that when I made my first submission I didn't have anyone to give it a kicking, so the poor story mods had to get sock puppets out and take me through the process of getting the damn thing verified.
Much stress, many tears, and a whole lot of swearing resulted. Poor curvy having to deal with all that.
My next one I sent to some of the writers I knew here to be properly brutal and as a result I'm expecting getting verified to be a lot easier this time.
Just some notes I wish I'd had when I started out here.
I highly recommend Rumps bar as a great place to meet folks, let off some steam and build your network.
I love this place, they really know how it feels to have writers block, a fickle muse, to feel that frustration when the next link in your story has fallen right out of your head leaving you spinning your wheels. Be as smart as you like, as dumb as you like, as serious or as silly just be yourself and join us on this crazy rollercoaster ride we call writing.
I'm off to the bar to cuddle Xander and flirt wildly with bunny.
Don't be shy, the first drink is on me.
Toodles.
Whatever was posted is always meant in love and respect never to offend.
I'm also highly likely to have posted this from a phone so there may be typos or odd word changes, auto correct can be a pain.
I've been listening to my kinky pencil here's my current work
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