You think writing is hard? It’s the easiest thing in the world. All you have to do is follow this procedure and you are guaranteed a story, no matter what.
Inspiration
Obviously, you need a reason to begin writing. You don’t wake up one day and say, I am going to write a story for no reason. For most people that means getting inspired by something. A song, a poem, an article, a book. Symbolically, you are touched by your muse.Motivation
After you are inspired, you need to be motivated so you can actually sit down to write. You don’t write a story every single time you are inspired. For most people motivation comes in the form of short term reward. Having a job for example, rewards you with a salary at the end of every month. For writers, this is limited to instant gratification by having fun while writing, to knowing they will be paid or get lots of likes out of it. Ps. Many writers have writing as their job, so their gratification is money.Persistence
Chances are, you won’t finish your story in an hour. Or a day. Or a week. It might take months. Or way longer. Being motivated works only for short term rewards. What happens when you run out of them and you are still far from over? You give up. This is when you need persistence, aka long term rewards. It’s when the destination is more important than the journey. For most, that means a story does not feel rewarding if it’s not finished. For others, it can simply be stubbornness to finish it, just for having invested so much time in it already. For a few, it’s the promise of publication.Tribute
All this talk about persistence is fine, but what can you do when you are stuck? You want to write, but you don’t know how. You reach a point and you have no idea how to continue. This is where tribute comes in; which the less sophisticated amongst us call rip-off. Many writers begin by making imitations of pre-existing stories. Others do fanfiction. It’s not the best solution in terms of creativity, but it’s a secure way to keep you going. Are you stuck? Get a similar story to yours that you really liked and rip the living hell out of it. Replace names and locations, use synonyms for adverbs, shuffle the events. There, you got yourself a book that is strangely enough as long as the one you used as template.Editing
Of course nobody should settle for imitations or badly stitched together stories. Many times it’s the editing that does the trick. Once you are stuck or over with paying tribute to another story, go back to the beginning and read the whole thing. Change anything that feels off. In most cases, you improve spelling and prose. In others, you find ways to expand or clarify certain scenes. You might also think it’s terrible and you should burn it. Never do that because you fall victim of lack of persistence. Go back a few steps and try anew with more… tribute.Visualization
I don’t include it in editing, although it’s the same thing but takes a lot of effort and is usually going unnoticed. It’s when you have a way to “see” a scene you wrote as if it’s a movie. Your imagination is the thing everyone uses, but that means nothing for the inexperienced mind which has a hard time to figure it out. Visualization is vital for seeing how a scene plays out in real time. Most writers don’t realize (or care) about the length of dialogues or descriptions, resulting to a ridiculous long period of time where time seems to stand still while the characters talk, or do something way too fast compared to others around them. Although not a must to keep in mind for writing a story, it is vital for telling a properly paced one, and by extension a more plausible one. Many details are often added for fleshing out a scene, making it more elaborate, realistic, or plain memorable. Without details, a story feels empty, hollow, generic. Visualization is the key for not just writing a story, but for writing a worthy one.Feedback
Meaning, editing from the perspective of others. Although this does not have to do with writing, it’s still a way to improve or continue a story. The opinions of others should be giving you ways you can tweak parts that feel iffy. They should never dictate your prose or plots though, since you are the writer, not them.Planning
Once you keep going and you seem to be doing a fine job, it’s time to start planning ahead. It sounds like this is what you should be doing from the very beginning but as you will realize eventually, writing rarely follows the storyboard. It’s something you should do once you have completed half or more of the story. Doing it from the very beginning makes it too easy to get stuck or give up every two pages.
And there you have it. Just go over these steps, and keep repeating them in circles until you are done.
"Rip the living hell out of it?" Seems to me that you're promoting plagiarism, which is the worst possible "advice" you could offer.
I agree. This is terrifying advice. You can read others to try to learn genre tricks, such as pacing, but never base your writing on someone else's. I'm strongly opposed to fanfiction also. Just another fancy word for ripping off someone else's work.
Exactly. There's a reason why fanfiction is verboten in professional writing circles.
One a good writer steals a bad one copies and nothing is original. Also you're forgetting
5.Editing
"Of course nobody should settle for imitations or badly stitched together stories. Many times it’s the editing that does the trick" or this "Change anything that feels off."
That does not "undo" the encouraged acts of plagiarism. Editing doesn't "fix" setting out to copy someone. And yes, things can be original.
Also you are mistaking your for you're.
Then star wars was made by a plagiarism as it steals from everything and name something that has never taken something from something else. Also editing is fixing something by its very definition you moron.
We are trying to help you, “you moron.” (Insult borrowed from your own hidden comment.) Endorsement of plagiarism in any form will get your fanny smacked in the real world as well as on this platform. Please consider your words carefully before you encourage people to do things that are not only illegal, but immoral and ethically unconscionable. No amount of editing in the world can erase the fact that you blatantly advised writers to “rip” the work of others. If I were you, I would simply take my lumps at this point and learn from the experience.
you really do sound like a bully
Pardon the intrusion, but I think that is not what he meant when he offered the said advice. This is not the "rip off a story then present it as yours" kind but rather "rip off a story as a jumpstart to writing." Besides, this is just "step four", not the final step. There's still step five: Editing. He even mentioned that "nobody should settle for imitations or badly stitched together stories... Once you are stuck or over with paying tribute to another story, go back to the beginning and read the whole thing. Change anything that feels off."
One a good writer steals a bad one copies and nothing is original. Also you're forgetting
5.Editing
"Of course nobody should settle for imitations or badly stitched together stories. Many times it’s the editing that does the trick" or this "Change anything that feels off."
How many alts do you actually have? And why?
They're Quotation marks as those are quotes from 5. editing.
No. I mean alt accounts.
you are retarded
plagiarism makes you money
Nope.
A good writer steals. But stealing like that is not done by taking a story and altering it until it looks different enough.
That's called plagiarism. Stealing is done when you see a concept out construction that you adapt and work into your OWN story. That you wrote yourself.
plagiarism = the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
synonyms: copying · infringement of copyright · piracy · theft · stealing · cribbing
I completely agree with Rhonda. How you can write a post with advice for writers, and include: "When stuck, go ahead and plagiarise" as one of your tips, is beyond me.
Furthermore, if you want to help writers, you would do better to try and teach them to have faith in their own ability, their own voice, rather than tell them to go ahead and take advantage of the work of another when they're stuck.
One a good writer steals a bad one copies and nothing is original. Also you're forgetting
5.Editing
"Of course nobody should settle for imitations or badly stitched together stories. Many times it’s the editing that does the trick" or this "Change anything that feels off."
You do realize that repeating the same wrong information over and over again doesn't make it correct information?
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STOPI agree with what you meant when you said to start coping another similar work but I don't think you should have said "rip-off". Also you should clarify that you can't just copy-paste something and edit it. You can copy the structure of a plot, motivation for characters, how certain events unfold, etc. But you should never "borrow" a whole plot or a whole character. You should copy what suits you and in small doses. It seems obvious but look at this comment section. Everyone is triggered by the word "Rip-off" and the lack of clarity regarding what should you copy and how much.
Do you think that if someone is good at reviewing fiction that automatically makes them a better writer of fiction? If so what is your reasoning for that?
No, since "reviewing" can mean anything. Analysis is not included.
Then does being good analysing fiction make someone good at writing fiction? Also what is the difference between 'analysis' and 'reviewing'? To me reviewing sounds like you are only talking about the work of fiction and analysis sounds like you are also looking at things outside the work itself. So I would say that what GRArkada does(or used to do, I haven't watched him in some time) is reviewing by talking about different aspects of the show like the animation, sound and stuff while what Digibrony is doing is mainly analysis by talking mainly about the themes. Is analysis just in-depth reviewing or is it something else?
Analysis is breaking apart something and studying it. How much you do it does not matter. Which is why just saying you liked something is analysis (a very shallow one).