WRITING & READING by Stu Leventhal
Every word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, theme has to help your whole piece deliver a reading experience. It is not about the writer being witty; but about building an artistic piece. Ask yourself if your writing is really free from normal conventions. Are you cliche writing? Are you copying technique or creating a style to fit your own projects purpose? Do you create with integrity? Are you showing us, telling us what matters to you?
Everyday life is boring but the good writers remind us how wonderful every second really is. The best writers do not make the boring, exciting by adding; they point us where to look closer so we too can see what fascinates them.
For Example: Your setting is a big part of your overall reading experience. I get it; you have a plot and you believe that truly you could write the same tale in the future, present or the past. Example: Romeo and Juliet into West Side Story.
Know that your setting, when really strong, contributes to the plot and theme. Characters should not and cannot not talk a certain way or respond the same in different settings or the setting is just blah and meaningless. Can you see how dialog could mean something special thing based on important current events happening at a specific time? You will understand this the more you develop your characters as you get into the writing of the story.
Choose the time period and place based on how it helps you say what it is you wish to say. Make your setting vivid and powerful so that no one would ever suggest you should change it. Your setting brings extra meaning to the story and impact to the read.
All elements of a tale have to be important to the other elements. The theme should force characters to act and speak in certain ways. The history of a place should create ambiance and tone which enhances the reason for the theme being so important and impactful to your reader. Plot scenes and drama should help you demonstrate your theme. It all works together to deliver a BANG of a reading experience.
Blogs are becoming quite popular and they are gaining in literary quality every day. I do not feel bloggers should take their audiences for granted. Blogging is an opportunity to be amateurish but you should still try to empress. Respect your fans and audiences. Do your best work and your writing will get better and better and better…naturally!
Knowing why you want to blog and who you are blogging to or for, will help you decide how to go about starting your new blog.
I, like most people expect a blog to be better quality than social media; quality meaning grammar, word usage and language skills. A blog should be visually unique since you have many more features you can incorporate into the look and function of your blog than comes on social sites.
Know what other bloggers in your genre or niche are doing and give people a better time when they visit your blog.
Blogs do not have to be fun, you can tackle serious stuff but working on your blog should be fun for you its creator. Remember you are competing for fans with the pro bloggers. These folks are trying to make a living just with their blog so they will be pulling out all stops to empress their audiences. Are you contributing to the stuff already out there in cyberspace? Is your blog really necessary?
Make sure you are proud of your blog!
Every word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, theme has to help your whole piece deliver a reading experience. It is not about the writer being witty; but about building an artistic piece. Ask yourself if your writing is really free from normal conventions. Are you cliche writing? Are you copying technique or creating a style to fit your own projects purpose? Do you create with integrity? Are you showing us, telling us what matters to you?
Everyday life is boring but the good writers remind us how wonderful every second really is. The best writers do not make the boring, exciting by adding; they point us where to look closer so we too can see what fascinates them.
For Example: Your setting is a big part of your overall reading experience. I get it; you have a plot and you believe that truly you could write the same tale in the future, present or the past. Example: Romeo and Juliet into West Side Story.
Know that your setting, when really strong, contributes to the plot and theme. Characters should not and cannot not talk a certain way or respond the same in different settings or the setting is just blah and meaningless. Can you see how dialog could mean something special thing based on important current events happening at a specific time? You will understand this the more you develop your characters as you get into the writing of the story.
Choose the time period and place based on how it helps you say what it is you wish to say. Make your setting vivid and powerful so that no one would ever suggest you should change it. Your setting brings extra meaning to the story and impact to the read.
All elements of a tale have to be important to the other elements. The theme should force characters to act and speak in certain ways. The history of a place should create ambiance and tone which enhances the reason for the theme being so important and impactful to your reader. Plot scenes and drama should help you demonstrate your theme. It all works together to deliver a BANG of a reading experience.
Blogs are becoming quite popular and they are gaining in literary quality every day. I do not feel bloggers should take their audiences for granted. Blogging is an opportunity to be amateurish but you should still try to empress. Respect your fans and audiences. Do your best work and your writing will get better and better and better…naturally!
Knowing why you want to blog and who you are blogging to or for, will help you decide how to go about starting your new blog.
I, like most people expect a blog to be better quality than social media; quality meaning grammar, word usage and language skills. A blog should be visually unique since you have many more features you can incorporate into the look and function of your blog than comes on social sites.
Know what other bloggers in your genre or niche are doing and give people a better time when they visit your blog.
Blogs do not have to be fun, you can tackle serious stuff but working on your blog should be fun for you its creator. Remember you are competing for fans with the pro bloggers. These folks are trying to make a living just with their blog so they will be pulling out all stops to empress their audiences. Are you contributing to the stuff already out there in cyberspace? Is your blog really necessary?
Make sure you are proud of your blog!
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