ElectricBlue
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Get on with it, and stop messing about!I might need to write Alex now. Fuck. It's not like I don't already have enough half-finished stories.
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Get on with it, and stop messing about!I might need to write Alex now. Fuck. It's not like I don't already have enough half-finished stories.
Bite me. Just not in a way that leaves marks.Get on with it, and stop messing about!
How do you authors research a particular topic? Do you just Google it? Do you use a particular resource that has been created for authors over the years? Or do you rely upon anecdotal information that you receive from persons you know in the particular trade?
Thanks, but I like bothering people here! But in all seriousness, your exemplar advice is helpful Re emergency medical terms. I can always look in legal and/or medical treatises or manuals instead of relying on google based web searches“Just” Google it? Not exactly. Other than using it to focus in on resources. For instance, I wanted to work up a number of different orbital paths for satellites in my Mel & Chris series, and found a couple of different orbital simulators I could download as apps. I already had my plot line, used the simulators to fine tune.
I can’t say I use “resources created for writers” for research. As examples, If I’m looking for emergency medical items, I’ll use references such as the US Army survival manual, survivalist websites and the like. I have a background in first aid training so can vet plenty of it, but it depends on what POV I want (“Holy shit, the bone’s sticking out!” “Victim has a type 3a open fracture.”)
I wouldn’t bother with consulting with someone for a story here. For a novel, possibly. Like with first aid, many subjects I build from my background knowledge and go from there.
You missed a prime opportunity to play Kerbal Space Program. Even NASA use it to teach people orbital mechanics.For instance, I wanted to work up a number of different orbital paths for satellites in my Mel & Chris series, and found a couple of different orbital simulators I could download as apps. I already had my plot line, used the simulators to fine tune.
In my head I know how I want the story (roughly) to build and so that, coupled with winging it, works for me.I’m hoping to get back into writing fiction story content (with built-in erotic themes). Often I have what I believe to be a good beginning and conclusion to a story, and I will spend significant time crafting the theme of the story (based on that opening/end) - only to find that it is much harder to write the middle parts of a compelling fiction story. Winging it almost always ends in failure for me. I’m just not that talented.
So, my question: assuming you know the substance of your product, how do you craft your story from start to finish? What work and process do you use? Do you Outline the story with chapters and themes in writing each chapter? Do you write the middle part first?
I do not wish to draw the ire of the well-heeled crowd here so I will add that I am not trolling, lol, and truly would like to finish a story without getting stuck in the same places again.
Thanks in advance.
Thank you!In my head I know how I want the story (roughly) to build and so that, coupled with winging it, works for me.
Usually I find the characters find a space in my head and once I start getting stuff down they guide the story to where it wants to be, usually with some fun stuff on the way that I didn’t see coming.
The best thing to do in my opinion is not worry about getting it right just get it written. If you need to change something later you can, if you want to amend an entire scene adding sex or even taking it away you can do that also.
Write more, worry less, listen to the characters.
And good luck!
Ooh, another good point I just thought of.I try not to make my storyline or plot technically cumbersome. This is very helpful.
May have been done to death, but the one time I did this, it was by far the fastest out of the gates in terms of view numbers. Not a bad score, either. I also use flashbacks occasionally. In my opinion, things don’t always have to be 100% chronological but make sure it’s clear when there are time shifts.I HATE that dropping people in the middle then going back. It’s a shitty fictional trick that’s been done to death.
Fair enough.May have been done to death, but the one time I did this, it was by far the fastest out of the gates in terms of view numbers. Not a bad score, either. I also use flashbacks occasionally. In my opinion, things don’t always have to be 100% chronological but make sure it’s clear when there are time shifts.