things to improve in writing [note to self]

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 14:01:56 GMT

writing texture

- plot (masha does this extremely well like she quickly hits character notes then gets into plot as well its fascinating to me)

for this i will attempt to write a little silly piece of detective fiction - nothing like a mystery to learn how to Plot

- characterisation

i am decent ish at this i believe but my two biggest enemies are 1. how to name people 2. how to make people bad. people are all bad and good but i lean a bit too much into the goodness and not enough into the murkiness. the murkiness doesn't mean NOIR it just means how people are in reality. real stuff! i really want to get real. like how the narrator of WTNV takes you unawares when he suddenly turns racist. Ryoko Kui is excellent at this.

- tone

i don't think i'm bad at tone, just that my tone gets a little... samey. it's not bad but i think my samey isn't the same as my favourite authors and their samey. their samey rules. mine is a little stale.

for this i think just practicing flash pieces will work. need to source ideas

writing forms

- longer lengths

write more than 3-5k words, PLEASE. let us aim at 15k words... lol.

- other formats than fiction and non-fiction

such as twine, experimental writing, poetry. my goal is to try and create a chapbook this year and a interactive fiction piece

will update when i think of more but these are already pretty big holes that i've known about forever except i want to do something about these now systematically

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[list] writing to-do

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:29:09 GMT

My round-up post is 1k words and counting, before I can post it here I have to do some housecleaning. List is in order of priority.

> animefeminist article: wish they'd pay a little bit more than they do but what they do is already a lot [TAXATION WILL REDUCE IT THO >:(] anyway i must finish writing this over the weekend (which is the new month????)

> bojack horseman fic: sans the fact that i relate to diane on an interplanetary level; her pain, her life trajectory, her passion, her dejection, her empathy, her ability to really, really hurt you where it matters... sans all this, i really love futurefics, and her life trajectory according to the show made me feel so happy and so serene. i want to explore that. i was looking up houston climate and cultural specificities, transport, people, housing, etcetera. i kind of really want to write this. it might be cathartic for me.

> skip and loafer fic: i need not say more but i have these WIPs i am endlessly fond of but have no clue how to execute (or end) without seeming a little... pander-y? But i will write it because no one else can write what i can write.

( just vague thoughts about stuff )

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things to improve in writing [note to self]

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