[ SECRET POST #6312 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6312 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

My writing was hideous when I started. Oh sure, the spelling and grammar were both fine, but the story was very dialogue driven because I couldn't write detail for shit. Which would be fine, but a lot of the dialogue was cringe too - I'd been fed a steady diet of soap operas and YA books up until then (and hadn't read many books up for a couple years up until then). You can imagine how those stories went when those "skills" were applied to canons I'd grown to love. Horribly childish dialogue, casual "isms" I had internalized up until then (a bad sign of the times, but I own it. I was an idiot), "witty" things that weren't actually witty at all, clunky description all around.

By comparison, the other writers had large vocabularies and well-thought out plots, and were pros at, um, prose. I had some good ideas... and struggled to get some of those across. I set aside a few for later, when I was a better writer. Some I had to outright abandon because I felt I wasn't the right person to tell that tale.

I'm still at it over 20 years later. I'd like to think I've gotten better during that time, maybe not on the level of pro, but I still have tales to tell and I'm enjoying myself. There was a benefit along the way - all those boring ass lessons in school, especially Language Arts/Literature? Because I started writing, I finally understand story structure.

The point is, if you really want to write, you have to start somewhere. And if you're not aiming for pro, that's fine too! Write how you want, write for anybody you want. If you only want to write for yourself, do that.