Post by Quatermass on Dec 24, 2010 4:37:12 GMT -5
This will be a lecture series about ways you can improve your writing and expand your knowledge of plots, tropes, and similar things.
Without much further ado, here's rule number 1, and perhaps the most important rule of all:
[glow=blue,2,300]RULE NUMBER 1: READ A LOT[/glow]
Seriously. If you haven't read anything outside one genre, you might as well give up writing. This may seem cruel and harsh, but it is also a fact of writing.
When you read a lot, and widely at that, you get a lot of benefits. You expand your vocabulary, you know how to spell a hell of a lot of words, you can learn from the great works of others (and from others' mistakes as well), and you have the benefit of any number of plotlines, characters, and tropes from what you have read.
Back on Wrong Planet, I have a challenge that I imposed on myself: to finish at least one book that I have not read before all the way through each week, as well as to review it. If you have the time, I suggest that you do the same.
Without much further ado, here's rule number 1, and perhaps the most important rule of all:
[glow=blue,2,300]RULE NUMBER 1: READ A LOT[/glow]
Seriously. If you haven't read anything outside one genre, you might as well give up writing. This may seem cruel and harsh, but it is also a fact of writing.
When you read a lot, and widely at that, you get a lot of benefits. You expand your vocabulary, you know how to spell a hell of a lot of words, you can learn from the great works of others (and from others' mistakes as well), and you have the benefit of any number of plotlines, characters, and tropes from what you have read.
Back on Wrong Planet, I have a challenge that I imposed on myself: to finish at least one book that I have not read before all the way through each week, as well as to review it. If you have the time, I suggest that you do the same.
