What's your go to technique or ritual for better writing?
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What's your go to technique or ritual for better writing?
And to be fair here's mine.
One of the most difficult things for me as a writer is to keep things in first person. To keep your reader engaged you need to maintain first person perspective as much as possible. To do this I always envision each chapter as a scene from a movie - and then I just write the dialog for the scene. I keep all the descriptions to an absolute minimum. I push through the chapter focusing on the active events that happen and what the characters have to say about it.
Then I read the chapter out loud to make sure my dialog is clear, concise, and sounds like different people.
When that's done I fill in the scene, describing the characters, the location, and the details - sight, smell, taste, feelings. This technique keeps my writing in active tense and focuses my mind specifically on making each chapter look, sound, and feel the way I want it to.
So what's your go to technique or ritual?
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Wow, this struck me as something that sure could go a long way to stretch a writer's capability. It is something I'd sure pass off as advice to any other person that might need such a tip. Sure sounds like a very useful thing to be doing in the expanse of writing.clint_csperry-org wrote: ↑20 Jul 2019, 22:14 my ritual? Hmm, write and write often. Every day. Share what I write with others who will offer critiques. Read a lot. Every day.
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