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MMSadiq replied to the thread Plot Bunnies.Yours reminds me of Ed, Edd, and Eddy, lol. I have a couple of my own. 1- A people trapped in a lush grotto that supports life with a...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Thoughts on Beat Sheets for a Beginner.I'll just do it. The thing that's causing me to delay isn't any of the technical aspects of writing, as much as I have chosen such a big...
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M>. I'll take what I think is useful and discard whatever seems unhelpful, even if it's otherwise. Both halves of that are worth...
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MMy take is that they (beat sheets) are neither inherently good or bad, but like all tools developed to help writers, they do not suit...
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MFor me, learning and applying structure helped quite a lot. I don’t think I could have completed my rough draft (what I call a...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Thoughts on Beat Sheets for a Beginner.I'm getting into Arabic literature for this purpose. Also, history is much more unbelievable than actual fantasy, and much of Arabic...
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MWell, I just (?) write my stories the way I was told stories by my mother and grandmother. Effectively I write my stories using a...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Thoughts on Beat Sheets for a Beginner.This sums up my thoughts on the matter after thinking about it. I'll just keep them in mind while analyzing what I read, and then apply...
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MI have looked at things like these many times, and consider them good things to keep in mind for the toolbox, but I've never written...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Thoughts on Beat Sheets for a Beginner.That's what I feel about Save the Cat in retrospect, and really any methods that gives you very specific set things to put in. E.g...
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MI have tried the path. I try some sort of structured approach with every novel. None of them have helped. Some, like Save the Cat and...
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MI've found learning structure to be very freeing. Part of learning to write is learning to organize your thoughts and ideas in a way...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Thoughts on Beat Sheets for a Beginner.I don't want to write something generic, but at the same time, those formalized methods offer something really alluring. They offer you...
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MI'm going to be a bit controversial here and tell you to ignore the supposed formalised methods and the use of beat sheets. If I were...
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MInstead of just fumbling my way through writing my first novel, I decided to be more sensible and learn the technical aspects of writing...
