The Tipsy Ramblings of a Bored Complainer · 11:12pm Dec 20th, 2014
So, the semester ended last week. I can sleep now! And then, imagine my surprise as I woke up yesterday morning, to find that my laptop charger had melted. Hurray! No writing or anything until Monday! I'm typing this all on my phone and that, on it's own, makes me want to scoop handfuls of toxic Vegemite into my mouth! Woohoo!
So what did I decide to do?
Drink beer and read a backlog of Tuna on my phone. And over the past two days, I've come to the conclusion that people are lazy.
I get it, the creative aspect of writing comes with practice and more practice and even more practice. I will never fault anyone for having a poor story or poor character designs if they're new.
But when I see dozens of stories on end, pockmarked left and right with grammatical and basic literary issues, I lose it. A few typos are fine, everyone does it. Ignoring every single comma before dialogue passages, or not using commas at all and reducing your work to ranking drivel is not okay.
If you can get an editor, great! But still check it twice or three times before it goes up. If you can't get an editor, then step away from the damn thing for a few days. Time and slow reading will give your mind a new set of lenses in which to judge your work. It's not that hard and, regardless of the creative quality of the work, will give it a much more polished look. Their readers will appreciate it too, as they're not stumbling over typos and mispunctuations every other sentence.
I mean, c'mon, it's really not that hard.
On that note, however, the creative level could really come up a few notches, because we're Tuna and that makes us the best, right?
(Totally, dude.)
Thanks.
So, as I'm sitting here doing nothing, maybe I'll start writing a few mini-lessons. It'll be fun, maybe. I can pretend I'm writing actually creative things.
go for it!
Soooooo... "At Tuna, we're better than you... And we know it!"
I can dig it.
I find it hard to come up with ideas for Tuna. I think the issue with shipping is that making up a story just so you can write a particular relationship is a bad idea in general. Tenebrae was built like that, and I don't even know what to do with it anymore.
2666765 I think you're looking at it backwards. With stuff such as Kinetics, I view it more as, "let's build a solid story with these characters in it, and work in the romance in the gaps allowed." Because that's really what romance is in most stories, a subplot. If done well it can weave into the main plot line and make things more interesting, but in general tethering the romance to a strong plot line makes everything more enjoyable. The romance is fun and sweet and nice and allows the character interactions to become more complex, but it can be spaced out enough to be both less blunt and forced, and also more special with its sparse occurance.
That being said, I find fluffy stories to be cathartic and a nice little escape. I know you feel otherwise, but writing solely for romance does have it's purposes I suppose.
2666815 Building upon what you said, this is part of the reason why my outlines use more of the backstory and general idea, with the romance stuffs coming as part of the plot, but not dominating. I find it more fun to go through the progression of the relationship through what the plot throws in their path.
Of course, you know this because we brainstormed together
I just found your story "Kinetics," and I do hope that...yeah I lost my train of thought.
Stupid ADHD!Anyway, I guess going off of your ending, I could definitely say that lessons would be helpful for people that aren't like me where they have ideas, they just can't actually focus on said ideas.Well that came out more formal than expected.