Organic Writers
Today in creative writing, we talked about what the best parts of a story is, and what you have to do to keep a reader involved. I'd say it was pretty beneficial to me because I actually enjoy writing more than just blogging (surprising, I know). It's called being an organic writer, and there are six things that this article told us to do.
1) Re-evaluate what you've heard about story.
2) Let narrative forces rather than formulas drive your story forward.
3) Follow rabbit trails.
4) Write from the center of the paradox
5) Trust the fluidity of the process.
6) Re-evaluate continuously.
I think these things are important, but they can be hard to understand. Pretty much what the author is saying is that you have to make sure to keep the plot interesting for your readers, make the characters believable and relatable, and don't worry too much on where you're going. If you're writing a story, you have to think about whats happening, what's going to happen, and what already happened. It's something that you have to tie together, in order to actually have your story make sense.
I wrote a story for NaNo (I'll explain this in a later post, I promise) that was really bad all all those things. I was into the fluidity process too much, and I actually didn't know where my plot was going. The story was terrible, and things that I have talked about at the beginning that seemed to be important never came back into the story. I learned that you have to be able to make those connections, or your story will just be used as something people laugh at (hey, at least it had that one purpose). I wrote another one the next year, and it had the same problems. I would make something seem really important (for an example, my main character's whole town had been ruined by all the girls being taken by the king [it was really dumb, don't judge me]. Her whole purpose was to save the girls, and, a few days later, that plot was gone from my mind.) and then by the end, it wouldn't have had any significance. I seriously took the whole character's character, and just made it disappear.
You'll have a great day whether you know it or not :)
Carly
1) Re-evaluate what you've heard about story.
2) Let narrative forces rather than formulas drive your story forward.
3) Follow rabbit trails.
4) Write from the center of the paradox
5) Trust the fluidity of the process.
6) Re-evaluate continuously.
I think these things are important, but they can be hard to understand. Pretty much what the author is saying is that you have to make sure to keep the plot interesting for your readers, make the characters believable and relatable, and don't worry too much on where you're going. If you're writing a story, you have to think about whats happening, what's going to happen, and what already happened. It's something that you have to tie together, in order to actually have your story make sense.
I wrote a story for NaNo (I'll explain this in a later post, I promise) that was really bad all all those things. I was into the fluidity process too much, and I actually didn't know where my plot was going. The story was terrible, and things that I have talked about at the beginning that seemed to be important never came back into the story. I learned that you have to be able to make those connections, or your story will just be used as something people laugh at (hey, at least it had that one purpose). I wrote another one the next year, and it had the same problems. I would make something seem really important (for an example, my main character's whole town had been ruined by all the girls being taken by the king [it was really dumb, don't judge me]. Her whole purpose was to save the girls, and, a few days later, that plot was gone from my mind.) and then by the end, it wouldn't have had any significance. I seriously took the whole character's character, and just made it disappear.
You'll have a great day whether you know it or not :)
Carly
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