New story
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:10 am
Can anyone give me some tips on making a story?
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I agree most whole heartedly!As for the second part, writing, I think I differ a bit from many others. I often hear people saying that you should simply write loads and loads of text, and while that might be good for something, I'd rather urge you to stick to smaller amounts but concentrate. Go over the text you've done again and again. Pay attention to words, to commas, to periods. Try using different perspectives (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th person) and different tenses, experiment with thoughts and so on. I also urge you to study some grammar if you haven't, might be boring but trying to write without it is a bit like trying to paint without knowing the properties of your material. Studying some rhetorical devices might also help you a bit, anafors, alliterations, tricolons and the like can be effective if used well. Also, be a bit anarchistic, while it's important to know the rules, you shouldn't be restrained by them (you'll have to know the rules to break them, at least if you want your breaking of them to be meaningful). Teachers will tell you where to put your commas, they will tell you not to start sentences with "and", they will tell you not to use passive forms and well, they'll kill all writing potential within you. Again, experiment! Try writing a whole page without a full stop, try writing two word sentences only, try avoiding punctuation altogether! That will of course not in itself make good stories but it'll teach you techniques and perspectives that'll be very important to you. Also, read your own text again and again, read it out aloud and try to find a rhythm and a flow; strike unnecessary words, put in others, change word order and so on, balance your sentences. Rhythm is something that we pay a lot of attention to even though we often don't realize it ourselves.
Since Maedhros has already answered on the writing end of things*, I'll address myself to the visual medium, which I've had a *little* bit of experience in, but I am by no means "up there" with the people I'm going to quote at the end.Forestman Jon wrote:What about the scenes, like a graphic novel with LEGO?
As someone who reads these instead of writing them, I have to say I much prefer a comic (yes, like a graphic novel) style presentation over just a story. Moc's to go along with a LEGO based story is where it's at, man. Otherwise it's just a story....Forestman Jon wrote:What about the scenes, like a graphic novel with LEGO?