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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
- 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
