Demesnedenoir
Myth Weaver
There are grammar rules, there aren’t really prose rules outside of grammar (IMO). The primary rule of writing is to be understood, which is what a lot of grammar rules are about. I’ve never felt restrained by rules, but then I use fewer -ly adverbs than Hemingway and King without trying. So, I guess if there was a rule to use lots of -ly adverbs I would be forced to rebel, heh heh.
Story to me is a series of events (emotional and/or physical) tied together in one fashion or another, simple as that, nothing fancy. A story I care to read is something else all together, heh heh.
I think it would be fascinating to give several writers a three act story arc with all the same plot points, same ending, and all that, and see how different every writer gets where they’re going. Or for that matter, an assignement of a single paragraph with high specificty of what is to happen and what it looks like, and see how different it’s written.
Story to me is a series of events (emotional and/or physical) tied together in one fashion or another, simple as that, nothing fancy. A story I care to read is something else all together, heh heh.
I think it would be fascinating to give several writers a three act story arc with all the same plot points, same ending, and all that, and see how different every writer gets where they’re going. Or for that matter, an assignement of a single paragraph with high specificty of what is to happen and what it looks like, and see how different it’s written.