Lily
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Post by Lily on May 16, 2011 21:08:07 GMT -5
Are they too rigid? Check out any bestseller and you're almost guaranteed to find POVs mixed up and quite a bit of telling as opposed to showing.
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zoe
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Post by zoe on Jun 26, 2011 0:43:03 GMT -5
Agree!
These days I can't read a book without seeing all the slips from these or that rules in each paragraph (where are the times I could just read and enjoy? lol)
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avery
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Post by avery on Jun 26, 2011 10:32:58 GMT -5
Or, the plot is not believable like in the paperback novel I bought recently. Still I only paid 5 bucks for it.
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Post by martinshaw on Jun 29, 2011 2:44:20 GMT -5
I see to big a flaw, I put it down. It's not that I read; I'm like this in general. Sometimes I put mistakes in as an obvious point. It can make for good reading, but it's hard to get it right
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Post by butterscotch on Jul 4, 2011 7:56:18 GMT -5
I see to big a flaw, I put it down. So do I. It suspends the disbelief needed to get deep in a story. |
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Post by Aberrant Fantastic on Jul 12, 2011 15:03:27 GMT -5
Of course the rules were meant to be broken. If everyone followed the rules, we'd have one book told over and over again. No one wants that. Writing is about being different and breaking as many rules as you can!
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Post by martinshaw on Jul 16, 2011 5:10:15 GMT -5
Writing can change perspectives and fashion: one of the well oiled cogs of society
Complicated communication today is simplicity tomorrow. A man in a 70 million pound mansion can commit suicide from having everything. 'What is the point of living?' he might say?
You have to get a life, and what better life to have in the freedom of writing. It is a purpose!
The man with nothing wants for everything, but he doesn't realise he is the richest man in the world.
We are born as a race to live simply and with trust of each other. Trust could be the meaning of life for us to be simple and have everything without having to aspire.
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pariah
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Post by pariah on Jul 17, 2011 22:17:48 GMT -5
I read somewhere once that you need to know all of the rules before you are allowed to break them when it comes to being a new writer trying to get published. I don't know though. Has anyone ever heard of metafiction? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafiction To me it sounds like all of the rules are thrown out as a rule...or may I should actually read the definition... |
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zoe
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Post by zoe on Jul 19, 2011 1:41:24 GMT -5
I read somewhere once that you need to know all of the rules before you are allowed to break them... I love this quote  Completely agree |
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Post by ttttr on Aug 29, 2011 11:57:31 GMT -5
What are the rules for writing? Can anyone send me a link?
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Lily
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Post by Lily on Aug 29, 2011 12:15:47 GMT -5
AND HOW TO BREAK THEM! ;D
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Post by Lily on Aug 29, 2011 12:23:14 GMT -5
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Post by kelly on Sept 9, 2011 20:53:12 GMT -5
If a writer gets too hung up about the mechanics it will dry up the creative juices.
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