#writingtheory

[lexinecircc]

i enjoy writing, but it’s also excruciating bc I know there’s so much that can go wrong, such as:

poorly recycling cliche tropes that do nothing for the plot

self-inserting yourself and accidentally projecting your bad or distorted ideas about the world onto the characters

going too far into la la land with your creative unadulterated urges to the point of lacking self-awareness

prioritizing style over substance

PLOT HOLES

being so possessive of your little darlings that you either a) don’t challenge the status quo in a substantive way that adds to the plot or b) you do challenge the status quo, but it’s ultimately toothless if you revert back to the status quo with no real cause or consequence 

writing something egregious or cringey and not really realizing it until someone finally just tells you straight up and then you cringe in pain as you realize how egregious it really is and you want to burn everything you’ve ever written

having way too many B, C, D, etc plots occurring at the same time, to the point that it compromises the primary A plot and the message gets lost and the reader is confused 

anyway writing is fun lmao 

[dutifullyloudmilkshake]

[victoriareeve]

How to use the structural metaphor of foreshadowing in your writing

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I addressed the question of how to use foreshadowing in another forum by explaining the term and how it works. If you’d like to receive more detailed posts about how to use foreshadowing, I’ll be unpacking this strategy here in the coming weeks. (And, if you’re keen to understand narrative structure, I have another series on that topic. Next week we’ll be looking at the five-part structure as…

[rumspump-blog]

Kurt Vonnegut. Paris Review Interviews. Vol. 1. p. 193

[willowdarcyartist]

Neil Gaiman's commencement speech at the University of the Arts.