Posts tagged fiction writing
the craft. judgment free writing.

With my voracious intake of social media, I can’t remember where I saw it, but someone was talking about how writers can’t be judgmental because of their need to write fully realized characters. This struck me because I’ve learned that I can be very judgmental as a person, which I’m working on, and I surely don’t want to be that way in my writing. There are certain attributes that make great writers. Most are curious, observant, readers, etc. I’m now adding non-judgmental to the list. Or as close as we can get to it, because who am I kidding? I’ll never be all the way there. 

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the craft. what happens next?

In writing, there are formally trained writers and those that have read a lot and have the ability to extract what they have learned from reading and apply it to their own work. What do I mean by the latter? For instance, when reading, I noticed early on that in fiction stories, there would always be a beginning that introduced us to the character and their regular life and then something happened that would essentially start the story. Upon beginning to study more about writing, I learned the proper term for that was an inciting incident and that is how most stories begin.

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