Original Fiction

[Adventurer411]

I could use some help on fiction techniques, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Come one and all to share your fiction expertise or gain some.

[Atlas]

You might want to start with exactly what kind of help you are looking for.

[Adventurer411]

Any kind would be of help. Description advice, action, anything. What I need help on mostly is individual scenes, the length. How much can you stretch description on a character/action before it loses suspense?

[Eilorae]

My direct opinion on this. Taken right from my NaNo story.

Spoiler:

[PeaceKeeper2014]

Here's a tip:

Anything that you've seen, like a movie or something, try to make it your own. Twist things you see in the world and make it your own in your own world. Call it what ever you want, but make sure to make it your own.

Make things that are based from your life, but also take that and morph it into something different, but special.

[Stella Luce 333]

Redng a lot can also help with writng. I thnk that just seeng how othr authrs have wrtten certn scnes can help you come up with new ideas...

[Soul Jelly]

Redng a lot can also help with writng. I thnk that just seeng how othr authrs have wrtten certn scnes can help you come up with new ideas...

Couldn't agree more.

[Atlas]

Well without any specific query I can only offer vague and usually common sense advice.

The most basic idea you need to keep in mind when writing a story is focus on some theme or idea. I can't stress enough how important it is to have some kind of point to your writing. The point should be the thing that a person takes away from a story, and the rest of the writing should relate to this idea/theme in some way.

I'll link a poem that does this excellently. I'm sure you've probably seen it before, and I'll bold the "idea" that the poem revolves around:

Spoiler:

In specific, the most important line would be "In proving foresight may be vain." The poem is wholly focused on all the preparations and plans the mouse made, only to have it washed away by something out of it's control. The whole poem was meant to convey how you can't plan for all the events that will happen and yada yada you get my point.

My point is that it had something it wanted to talk about, and each part of the writing complemented and gave context to that message.

[cya6]

As fun as it is to write lengthy character discriptions, I think that readers would get bored quickly (or at least, the people I know get bored with those)

Especially if it's a disliked character.

[Atlas]

Pro Tip:

If you can't explain your basic plot to someone in less than a paragraph, you have too much stuff going on.

[AeonFrodo]

Pro Tip:

If you can't explain your basic plot to someone in less than a paragraph, you have too much stuff going on.

That or you don't know how to explain it in one paragraph. Some really advanced fanfiction/stories need multiple paragraphs to explain what's going on in their story.

[Atlas]

Pro Tip:

If you can't explain your basic plot to someone in less than a paragraph, you have too much stuff going on.

That or you don't know how to explain it in one paragraph. Some really advanced fanfiction/stories need multiple paragraphs to explain what's going on in their story.

But for the sake of most common purposes, one paragraph, or 3-5 sentences should suffice.

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