http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ Web Fiction Guide Forums » Tag: tips - Recent Topics en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:15:49 +0000 http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/share-with-us-whats-improved-your-writing#post-4095 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:54:14 +0000 DevinO 4095@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I thought this might be a fun topic :) I have been working on editing and re-editing the beginning of my serial most of the past week, to give it the right feel and flow. As I go I've noticed (and run across, and been kindly advised) of some little rules that have really helped. I'd like to share them, and hear what pieces of wisdom helped you improve your writing.</p> <p>The first for me was a wonderful trick of making long sentences make sense. As long as the subject and the verb are at the beginning of the sentence, it remains readable even despite further prodigious verbiage. It is even sort of magical how well it works to keep the eye from wandering off mid-sentence in confusion. Go ahead and try it if you aren't familiar with it. </p> <p>The second was so stupidly simple that I couldn't believe I'd never realized it before a friend with an English degree pointed it out. I was finding that sentences together in paragraphs were losing the eye when they were fine individually. The paragraphs weren't particularly long, so I was at a loss. It turns out that the eye (and by extension the poor reader's long-suffering brain) likes to see long sentences surrounded by short sentences. Similarly, it is easy to read long words surrounded by short words.</p> <p>So what little tips and rules have you found that improved your writing? </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/new-lit-resourcefree-books#post-4178 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:09 +0000 jkev 4178@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Hi everyone,</p> <p>I'm JK, the founder and shameless pimp of LitDrift.com, a new blog, resource &amp; community dedicated to the art &amp; craft of fiction in the 21st century.</p> <p>Besides editorial content, we've got daily creative prompts, daily short stories, and a weekly free book giveaway called Free Book Friday. This week, we’re giving away a copy of Awkward One, a new short story anthology by Awkward Press. We also accept reader submissions—if you or your readers would like to contribute anything (fiction, bar napkin doodles, original power ballads to your grandma, etc), we’d be happy to feature it on our site.</p> <p>Just eager to get the word out. Thanks!</p> <p>-JK</p> <p>PS: Who's doing NaNo this year? We should be writing buddies! <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/566011" rel="nofollow">http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/566011</a> </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/battle-scene-writing#post-3114 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:22:59 +0000 Murazrai 3114@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>If there is any battles/combats in some parts of the stories, how you'll write them? I'm trying to avoid writing it as if writing a battle scene in a turn-based RPG. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/getting-started-tips-for-someone-wanting-to-break-into-web-publishing#post-717 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:24:45 +0000 Edje 717@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I started with an idea for a web comic, unfortunately I can't draw and I have yet to meet anyone that would be able to create the visuals I was looking for; So I decided to forgo the illustrations and create a work of prose.<br /> I literally found out about the large community of web serialization TODAY!<br /> I'm truly excited about getting started on my own story, but I have one small problem,<br /> I have no idea where to begin in regards to the web publishing part!<br /> Any tips for a genuine newcomer to the community on how to get started? </p>