Newbie Needs Help

[Guest]

Hello all,
Help I'm trying to write a story and have no idea how to, I wanna do a Science Fiction deal but for some reasons all my ideas never seem work out!! I needs some one to hear out my ideas, encourage them and give imput from everything from chacrater names to grammer . My email is pinkmermaid@snip.net. Help Please!!

 

[HomerPindar]

Hello all,
Help I'm trying to write a story and have no idea how to, I wanna do a Science Fiction deal but for some reasons all my ideas never seem work out!! I needs some one to hear out my ideas, encourage them and give imput from everything from chacrater names to grammer . My email is pinkmermaid@snip.net. Help Please!!

If I may, a few suggestions,

1. Try not to fit your writing into an idea that isn't working for you. Just write what wants to come out, and if it turns out not to be a sci-fi it may still work out as a fine story.
2. You're asking for alot if you need help with character names. I keep a phone book handy myself, if I even feel a certain type of name is needed.
3. Write, write, write, write, write, nap, write, write -- personally I find eating is often optional. This, if nothing else, will help you in the grammer and structure, because when you are not writing, read read read read.
4. Register and make your addition here official

HomerPindar

 

[Axeltheswede]

Newbie needs help

May I suggest: Start with characters and develop interaction. Find the conflict and work on your sci fi scenario for a setting.

I like to watch small groups of people in places like restaurants, malls, and casinos. I try to figure out their relationships to each other. That is not as obvious as you might think. Once you figure out the relationships, the conflicts grow out of your imagining where they go from where you saw them.

Start over as many times as you need to. I agree with HomerPindar, write, write, write and keep writing. As old Ernie Hemingway once said "The first draft of anything is shit!" I have that quote framed on the wall in back of my computer.

Good Luck

 

[DRxBlue]

Practice IS the best teacher!

i guess EVERY writer has a different way of "planting the seed" that grows into a story.

i like that swedetheAxel guy's idea of starting with a character, giving your hero an attitude, even a MISSION. Then you could just let the hero lead you into action.

i like to start with an incident or image that interests me, like:

"a guy punches a little old lady in the face, she lands on her back with her feet in the air. The umbrella she's holding opens as she falls"

Then you can work in both directions, like:

"Why did he do that? What does he look like? Who is this little old lady? IS she a little old lady?"

and

"What happens next? Now that her umbrella is open can she still use it as a weapon? Is he going to hit her again?"

It's FUN! Sorta like giving a puppet show in your head. If you're lucky, the characters themselves start to make suggestions, even giving you orders!

like:

"HEY! You creep! What's the idea of making me hit that sweet little old lady? I would NEVER do that! Change this paragraph or I'll kick your ASS!"

Ooo...it's an adventure. C'mon pinky! Dive IN! Plenty of room in THIS ocean! Besides it's FREE! You can afford that!

Good luck!

 

[deliciously_naughty]

consider writing fanfic as a first option. Did you always wonder what it was like for Deanna Troi and Worf when they got it on on Star Trek TNG. Personally I always wanted to be Wesley Crushers first...all that geeky chair and sexy brown eyes...wow I guess I still want him Bab 5 would be a great option...there are a ton of stories about Susan Ivanova and Marcus the Ranger getting together (i.e. he didn't kill himself to save her). I'm assuming you're already a fan of sci-fi. Take characters you already know and indulge your fantasies.

And I agree with everyone on the site...the best solution to writing that's flat is to keep writing. Rewrite rewrite rewrite. The only way to become a good writer is to write...profoundly simple, yet profound.

good luck! And maybe I'll have to write that Wesley story...thanks for the inspiration.

 

[Guest]

You seem to have got a lot of very valid workable suggestions. Even after following that you feel stranded, mail me at literotica.