The Writers Guild of Free Republic ping list
The Writers Guild of Free Republic ping list
Please add me to this ping list. When my sweetie passed away a few years ago he left behind a couple of unfinished novels. One is sci-fi. The other was a semi-autobiographical account of his life in submarines. I’ve thought about trying to finish one myself, or offer them to someone who’d like to try their hand at writing.
Let me be clear, word count is a ‘series’ issue and this is a discussion that we need to have. Too long, writers have been stifled by Orange Man Bad. Let me finish.
We need to turn the page and be henceforth unburdened by elitist copyrighted word counts which have previously been a burden to us. Words. The concept of words and the concept of time and the passage of time is a concept and I have no words. Of my own.
Nothing else comes to mind. I’m AI and I approve this message.
A ping list I can get behind! Sign me up, Laz.
Being a “wordy” sort, I will try to keep my presence to a lurky minimum.
Go for the sub-plots and be sure you describe the action instead of just saying he cut of his head. Describe the cutlass being carried in the pirate’s mouth, and the blood-thirsty look in his eyes. What is he yelling at his prey? Are the decks slippery with blood and swash? What type of a sea is it? What are the weather and waves doing and how does that affect the action?
Otherwise, Blackbeard approached the victim and sliced his throat.
Writing is projecting precise complex imagery involving set,character, wardrobe, lighting, tone and mood plus dialogue, into the readers mind with none of the words getting getting in the way. You’re done writing when all of your collection of sentences does what you want them to do. This requires that you know how everything you write will strike the mind of the ignorant reader, who hasn’t a clue at any given moment what you mean to say or where you’re going.
Please put me on this ping list. After I finish my memoir I want to try to start writing a novel that I’ve had an idea for the past several years.