The BSN writers club

Late to the party but \o. I am a fanfic author and also working on an original scifi/cyberpunk story.

Fanfics I write are mostly ME, ME:A, and I have a long-running OC Star Trek series. The Mass Effect stuff is published, but the Star Trek stuff is going through a re-write and remains offline.

I'm always at work when ideas come to me. I've been guilty of taking off early just to work on an idea.

This article gives some examples between showing/telling:

madgeniusclub.com/2017/10/20/show-dont-tell/

first off the and bolts of writing does not help one write. The most perfect grammatically correct story but be as boring as paint. Whereas a lot of famous writers their own ticks.

On the second point you can tell whatever you want. As long as you back it up or not in story. For example you can say so and so has a good heart and they give an apple to an orphan then that means one thing. But if that character takes an apple from an orphan it means something else entirely.

Knowing the nuts and bolts does help one write, in that readers can more easily discern whether your story is brilliant or boring as paint.

Writers having their own tics is fine, but it helps immeasurably to know the rules of grammar before you start breaking them. You may have a nifty story, but if you can't be bothered to try and exercise at least some reasonable consistency with spelling and punctuation and all those other, boring grammatical things, or you think you're the second coming of ee cummings and are above the tyranny of capitalization, then I fear I can't be bothered to wade my way through the sticky morass of your writing searching for the nifty bits. If you're weak in the nuts and bolts dept., there are many free, online programs to help with that, so there's really no excuse.
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It's handy. I've got all these separate word documents for single pieces of fiction. The main document, the character list document, the fragment document, the research document. With Scrivener I've got them all in one place and I can click on which one I want like changing an internet tab. 

Not sure I haven't posted this before. But these two videos are proving invaluable for my next novel.

I've finished drafting my short story, then, a few hours later, realized that I really want to write more about these characters in this setting. It's going end up like a mess because the setting is not going to hold together, but it is fun... so, I guess, back to typing and see where it's going to explode in my face.

Here's a little tutorial, should you need one. 



Also, one of my favorite writing blogs, "Helping Writers Become Authors," did a series on how to build your own really functional format.

planning can do that.

Writing so much GOT RP......

art is art. Don't rush it. Don't put artificial barriers on it. As long as you are writing for yourself you'll be good in this regard.