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Writing Blog Number 2

by s

Rated: 18+ · Book · Personal · #2311764

This is a continuation of my blogging here at WdC

This will be a blog for my writing, maybe with (too much) personal thrown in. I am hoping it will be a little more interactive, with me answering questions, helping out and whatnot. If it falls this year (2024), then I may stop the whole blogging thing, but that's all a "wait and see" scenario.

An index of topics can be found here: "Writing Blog No.2 Index"

Feel free to comment and interact.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Kåre Enga in Montana

Jul 1, 2024 at 5:41pm
In response to "20240701 Writing Through Depression"

I wrote a lot when I was homeless. Helped me get through a rough spot.

I'm older than you; but, I didn't start writing until 1999 and wrote a lot from 2002 till about 2020. I'm not as organized but I have thousands of unfinished works.

I don't self-medicate. Lucky me. Travel has helped me live in the real world (the bus leaves whether I catch it or not). I can live on less than most folks as long as I can make connections in the real world. That said, I do daydream... a lot. I prefer quiet but not isolation.

Each person should find out what works and what doesn't. I wasted many years on what didn't work.

Wordsmitty ✍️

Jun 29, 2024 at 3:23am
In response to "20240629 When Life Gets In The Way"

To keep people away from bothering me, when asked what I'm doing, I always tell them I'm writing porn. They quickly go away and don't come back.

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Elycia Lee ☮

Jun 29, 2024 at 2:57am
In response to "20240629 When Life Gets In The Way"

I never tell people in real life what I am writing or what I write. It's a secret.

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Adherennium Dr of Phoolishness

Jun 27, 2024 at 5:44am
In response to "20240627 Motivation In The Middle"

Stuck in the middle has killed every attempt that I've made to write a novel. Only once with a shorter story, just over 10K words did I actually finish.

Thanks for all these articles, they are basically gold.

tracker

Jun 22, 2024 at 9:42am
In response to "20240622 Public Consumption Of Your Work"

I had the same thing happen with a couple of my pieces. One person insisted I needed to add an epilogue to one story because I owed it to my readers to explain how everything turned out, when I felt I already had one that.

I was embarrassed when I did a review maybe last week when I told the author I was sorry he was bullied in high school and what he had to go through in the story about attending his high school reunion. Here is his reply: "Hi. Thanks for the kind words---I have never been to a class reunion. This was all fabrication." So there you have it Wordsmitty ✍️ and s
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Wordsmitty ✍️

Jun 22, 2024 at 2:39am
In response to "20240622 Public Consumption Of Your Work"

I've gotten reviews of a few things I have on here that truly enlightened me. I didn't know I had written it that way, but it made more sense and sounded like I knew what I was doing. To me, it was just a story about people and things.

I really do try not to think about why I'm writing something. It gets me confused and alienates the muse.

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tracker

Jun 18, 2024 at 7:19pm
In response to "20240618 Endings"

I have not studied much on how to write except classes in college. Thank you for the helpful, scholarly details on all aspects of writing in this blog.

tracker

Jun 18, 2024 at 7:19pm
In response to "20240618 Endings"

I have not studied much on how to write except classes in college. Thank you for the helpful, scholarly details on all aspects of writing in this blog.

tracker

Jun 18, 2024 at 7:18pm
In response to "20240618 Endings"

I have not studied much on how to write except classes in college. Thank you for the helpful, scholarly details on all aspects of writing in this blog.

tracker

Jun 18, 2024 at 7:16pm
In response to "20240616 Writing An Autobiography Or Memoir"

I wrote mine at Storyworth.com in 2023. They are patiently waiting for my final edit then it will be hard bound. It can then be purchased by family members.

July 4, 2024 at 4:19am

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20240704 How Not To Write A Story - Video Essay

How Not To Write A Story - Video Essay

I watched the video that will make up the bulk of this blog post the day it came out; I find myself agreeing with a lot of Cynical's opinions, so it is nice hearing them reflected. But I had not seen Damsel. I watched his video, and thought, That looks like shit, and so vowed not to bother.

Then one of the ladies I help at the library said it was so good to see a story where the woman was the hero. I mentioned Alien, Terminator, and Halloween. "But," she said, "the adverts say this is the first!"

Not only not the first, I told her, apparently not very good.

She asked if I'd seen it. I told her I hadn't. The next day she brought it to me on USB - she'd PVRed it - and I watched it. She asked me what I thought.

I told her it was a plothole in search of a story, and the main character relied on every deus ex machina under the sun to succeed. But, I said, if she liked it, cool.

I think Cynical was too kind on it.

This is an example of truly awful story-telling. Not quite as bad as Bright, which is truly shocking and logically makes no sense at all, but not good at all. At least most of the acting is decent in this. Most. I think Millie Bobby Brown is not a good actor, and this film confirms that.

Anyway, I think Cynical puts it far better than I ever could.

This is 21 minutes long, has lots of swears (which I know upsets USians - kill people, fine! nude bodies and swearing - AUGH!), and rambles a little, but he is right.

Damsel is an example of how not to tell a story.

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