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Jun 27, 2018
Expert Rules for Writing Fiction - WritersLife.org 
 
 
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Hi I'm Jodi from WritersLife.org and
today we'll be talking about expert
rules for writing fiction today we'll be
looking at advice given by the experts
Elmore Leonard says using adverbs is a
mortal sin never open a book with the
weather if it's only to create
atmosphere and not a character's
reaction to the weather you don't want
to go on too long the reader is apt to
leap ahead looking for people there are
exceptions if you happen to be Barry
Lopez who has more ways than an Eskimo
to describe ice and snow in his book
Arctic dreams you can do all the weather
recording you want avoid prologues they
can be annoying especially a prologue
following an introduction that comes
after a foreword but these are
ordinarily found in nonfiction a
prologue in a novel is back story and
you can drop it anywhere you want there
is a prologue in John Steinbeck sweet
Thursday but it's okay because a
character in the book makes the point of
what my rules are all about he says I
like a lot of talk in a book and I don't
like to have nobody tell me what the guy
that's talking looks like I want to
figure out what he looks like from the
way he talks
keep your exclamation points under
control you are allowed no more than two
or three per 100,000 words never use the
words suddenly or all hell broke loose
this rule doesn't require an explanation
I have noticed that writers who use
suddenly tend to exercise less control
in the application of exclamation points
don't go into great detail describing
places and things
unless you're Margaret Atwood and can
paint scenes with language you don't
want descriptions that bring in the
action the flow of the story to a
standstill try to leave out the part
that readers tend to skip think of what
you skip reading in a novel thick
paragraphs of prose you can see have too
many words in them Margaret Atwood says
hold the reader's attention this is
likely to work better if you can hold
your own but you don't know who the
reader is so it's like shooting fish
with a slingshot in the dark what
fascinates a will bore the pants off
be you most likely need a thesaurus a
rudimentary grammar book and a grip on
reality this latter means there's no
free lunch writing is work and it's also
a gamble you don't get a pension plan
other people can help you a bit but
essentially you're on your own nobody is
making you do this you chose it so don't
whine about it you can never read your
own book with the innocent anticipation
that comes with that first delicious
page of a new book because you wrote the
thing you've been backstage you've seen
how the rabbits were smuggled into the
Hat therefore ask a reading friend or
two to look at it before you give it to
anyone in the publishing business this
friend should not be someone with whom
you have a romantic relationship unless
you want to break up don't sit down in
the middle of the woods if you're lost
in the plot or blocked retrace your
steps to where you went wrong then take
the other road or change the person
change the tents change the opening page
Roddy Doyle says do be kind to yourself
fill pages as quickly as possible double
spaced or write on every second line
regard every new page as a small triumph
until you get to page 50 then calm down
and start worrying about the quality do
feel anxiety it's the job do give the
work a name as quickly as possible
own it and see it Dickens new Bleak
House was going to be called Bleak House
before he started writing it the rest
must have been easy do restrict your
browsing to only a few websites a day
don't go near the online bookies unless
it's research
Helen Dunmore says finish the day's
writing when you still want to continue
listen to what you have written a dud
rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show
that you don't yet understand the
characters well enough to write their
voices reread rewrites reread rewrites
if it still doesn't work throw it away
it's a nice feeling and you don't want
it to be cluttered with the corpses of
poems and stories which have everything
in them except the life they need
Esther Freud says a story needs rhythm
read it out loud to yourself if it
doesn't spin a bit of magic it's missing
something
editing is everything cut until you
can't cut No
or what is left often springs into life
find your best time of the day for
writing and writes
don't let anything else interfere
afterwards it won't matter to you that
the kitchen is a mess
don't wait for inspiration discipline is
the key trust your reader not everything
needs to be explained if you really know
something and breathe life into it
they'll know it to never forget even
your own rules are there to be broken
don't forget if you're having a hard
time writing or finishing your book
check out our free writer's tool kit it
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