Literacy.
So this one girl posts a thread "What's your feelings on writing?" She gives these crappy lil' examples, and then I reply:
Jasper Riddle
My feelings on writing:
Write whatever the ******** you want. It's your story, and if people are going to judge it, fine. Write cliched messes that ooze of crap--you'll get over them. Then you can start writing the good stuff from within your soul.
Read. How can you get any better at writing if you don't know how other people write? And you don't even have to pick up a bestseller. Read the dictionary if you must. See how words flow.
Write whatever the ******** you want. It's your story, and if people are going to judge it, fine. Write cliched messes that ooze of crap--you'll get over them. Then you can start writing the good stuff from within your soul.
Read. How can you get any better at writing if you don't know how other people write? And you don't even have to pick up a bestseller. Read the dictionary if you must. See how words flow.
It's true, y'know. Books revolve around two things and these two things only: Reading and Writing.
Yeah, sure, there have been people who've written books that are touching and amazing and all that and they look like s**t. But you can't really get away with that these days--or so I would hope.
I've seen people who say they've gotten published. Most of them are like this:
Quote:
i got publishd n juts thot id say so
We all laugh at those people. It's really hard to believe that someone has gotten a book (or even a poem) published when they still write in chatspeak.
Sorry, kiddos. You have to be this literate to play in the WF.
