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Mar. 1st, 2024 06:28 amIn my attempts to write more I keep finding myself writing in sentences that, while proper grammar, spelling, topic, etc, are difficult for people of more standard education (or even thinking patterns). It's really obvious when I try to work on older unfinished works - even I have to look thrice to comprehend them, and I am the cause!
I'm trying a new tactic. Write as much as I have the inspiration for, to get the story going (or adding to an unfinished one that already exists). Once my brain starts going "erm, there are things that need more planning and I can't make words for an incomplete idea" I'm stopping (past method was to try to force more - doesn't work) and going to some other story and reading it. I always find tons of writing that is the story, but is not in a manner that regular people find easy (or even comprehensible). I can focus on the language constructs without worrying of the story ideas since they are already there and rewrite them in structures that people who do regular words can make sense of.
Not that they can't with my first versions, just that it takes more work than most people are willing to put into reading unfinished stories by unknown authors. I don't blame them - when I see a poorly translated story from a non-English author I have to decide if I am willing to put effort into deciphering the translation or find something else to read. To avoid putting readers into that dilemma I am trying to write in ways that are more common and, thus, easier to parse.
Rereading this tells me I should do that same process here. Except it's 6:45 am and I have not napped in over eight hours, so it will have to wait until (if?) I have the energy to revisit this post and write in a less wordy, convoluted way.
This has been another post from the society of randomly babbling faeries, without authorization or approval. (We're faeries, we don't follow rules, we just babble at random and hope someone likes trying to figure out what we were trying to say.)
I'm trying a new tactic. Write as much as I have the inspiration for, to get the story going (or adding to an unfinished one that already exists). Once my brain starts going "erm, there are things that need more planning and I can't make words for an incomplete idea" I'm stopping (past method was to try to force more - doesn't work) and going to some other story and reading it. I always find tons of writing that is the story, but is not in a manner that regular people find easy (or even comprehensible). I can focus on the language constructs without worrying of the story ideas since they are already there and rewrite them in structures that people who do regular words can make sense of.
Not that they can't with my first versions, just that it takes more work than most people are willing to put into reading unfinished stories by unknown authors. I don't blame them - when I see a poorly translated story from a non-English author I have to decide if I am willing to put effort into deciphering the translation or find something else to read. To avoid putting readers into that dilemma I am trying to write in ways that are more common and, thus, easier to parse.
Rereading this tells me I should do that same process here. Except it's 6:45 am and I have not napped in over eight hours, so it will have to wait until (if?) I have the energy to revisit this post and write in a less wordy, convoluted way.
This has been another post from the society of randomly babbling faeries, without authorization or approval. (We're faeries, we don't follow rules, we just babble at random and hope someone likes trying to figure out what we were trying to say.)
