[ SECRET POST #2860 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2860 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I do more travel writing than fanfiction these days, but I have a few pieces of advice for spicing up your writing:

1. Pacing is important because it gives stories dramatic build up. Don't immediately jump into the "good stuff", let your audience stew in the possibilities for awhile before tossing them a bone. Working good pacing into your story also forces you to come up with creative stuff to fill in the time when things need to slow down. Now I don't mean "filler". Filler kills dramatic buildup. You don't want a character to spend an entire chapter sitting around idly pondering something, or two lovers to lay in bed doing nothing. It may be fun to fantasize about, but your readers will leave to seek out more interesting fic. I mean have your character take a moment to reflect on something pertaining to the situation, or bring the senses into it, make the situation more visceral and real. Proper pacing will increase drama while allowing the characters a bit of breathing room to show their character.

2. End chapters with a disaster. So you've built up tension, the characters are doing their best to alleviate the situation, things seem to be going according to plan, the worst thing you can do at this point is to end the chapter with success. You aren't doing the reader any favors by making everything work out for the characters in the middle of your story. Give them a reason to keep reading, and to demand faster releases.

3. Avoid overused metaphors and descriptions. Once you've written your first draft, go over it again and pick out all the cliches. Can you find a way to describe these things using more interesting prose? Invoke all the senses in your mind. What does it look like? Does it have a smell? How does it feel? Now that you are mindful of the thing you're trying to describe, you can be more artful in your metaphors.

4. Don't go with the first solution you come up with, or even the second. If you use the first thing you come up with, chances are, the reader will have thought of the same. Try putting in a disaster that nullifies any chance of the predictable solution occurring. That will really frighten your audience.

Writing creatively hinges on the writer leaving their comfort zone. If you push yourself a little further with each story, there's no doubt you will improve.