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Hi I'm Jody from Writer's life at work
and today we'll be talking about writing
tips for aspiring writers writing is a
really wonderful activity personally I
really enjoy reading and writing
historical romance if you are an
aspiring writer here are some tips to
get you started the hook the opening of
your story should be a hook that catches
the reader and makes them want to read
on usually you would start with the
conflict or point of change in some
stories you can however show a bit of
the characters normal life before
introducing the problem or conflict that
changes the character's life the hero's
journey this type of story is known as
the hero's journey and requires skill to
write the main point is that your
writing should be deliberate and not a
coincidence
the first few paragraphs should make the
reader want to continue they should be
interesting and if there is any
background information in the first few
paragraphs it should be interspersed
with conflict large chunks of background
information or description will quickly
bore the reader and should be avoided
pick up a few books and read the first
few pages to see how other writers write
them there is even a chart you can
follow specifically called the hero's
journey google it and you'll see what
I'm talking about
introduce your conflict introduce the
problem or conflict in the first few
pages if we don't know from the
beginning what the conflict is we may
not want to read on after all it's the
conflict that keeps us reading conflicts
can be internal with the character
external between the character and the
outside world or both but we all know
the best type of conflict is internal
background information background
information should be kept at a minimum
and short stories while in novels bits
of background information should be
provided in various places large chunks
of background information at one place
however should be avoided dialogue
dialogue should sound natural but should
not be exactly like real-life
conversation read dialogue aloud to see
whether it sounds right or not dialogue
should also be consistent with the
character's personality if your
character seems to be a rogue from other
descriptions but the dialogue shows them
it to be extremely nice there should be
a reason to it does the character have
multiple faces are they only that way
certain people or have you used the
dialogue that's inconsistent with the
character's personality every scene in
your story it should move it forward or
show characterization but preferably
both no scenes should be there without a
purpose during the rewrite stage ask
yourself whether the scene further
supply or show his characterization what
would happen if you throw the scene out
well the story fall apart like a sweater
would if you cut out some yarn or will
the story remain complete without the
scene if the story is complete without
the scene did the scene show some
necessary information about the
character if not then it's unnecessary
and should not be included in the story
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