Thanks. It's simple, really. Just take everything that's happened between you and Beth, and everything you wish had happened, and chop it into bits. Add some favorite spots from other people's stories. Take a theme from someplace and start pasting the bits into that framework. Fill in the gaps with pathos, bathos, or whatever strikes your fancy. Voilá! A story! It's your story, yet it's not exactly the story of you.
In Sozont #13, the paw shaking from hunger (but not the nudity) comes from the first date in my second courtship with Wifey. I have no idea where the "talk to your food before you eat it" stuff comes from, but it keeps showing up.
Yeah, a lot of the stuff on my website is like that. The first few sentences are very good, then it veers suddenly into much lower-quality writing, then peters out without ever having gone anywhere. I guess it takes a few tries to find a theme you can actually work with. The first 4-5 episodes of Sozont were parodies, which is a form I find very easy to work with; apparently that created enough of a base so I can now build the rest of the story on that foundation, although it gives Sozont a bit of a split personality. Or maybe he's "growing up".
My works are generally of the parody or fan-fic variety...something I'm trying to get away from. I think my problem is that I tend to fuel my writing with whatever emotion I'm feeling at the time, giving me a very short window to complete it in.
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Date: 2004-07-23 11:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-24 10:31 am (UTC)In Sozont #13, the paw shaking from hunger (but not the nudity) comes from the first date in my second courtship with Wifey. I have no idea where the "talk to your food before you eat it" stuff comes from, but it keeps showing up.
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Date: 2004-07-24 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-25 05:12 pm (UTC)Yeah, a lot of the stuff on my website is like that. The first few sentences are very good, then it veers suddenly into much lower-quality writing, then peters out without ever having gone anywhere. I guess it takes a few tries to find a theme you can actually work with. The first 4-5 episodes of Sozont were parodies, which is a form I find very easy to work with; apparently that created enough of a base so I can now build the rest of the story on that foundation, although it gives Sozont a bit of a split personality. Or maybe he's "growing up".
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Date: 2004-07-25 05:37 pm (UTC)