Creative Writing--So Simple Even You Can Do It! (Probably)

[doesdoctorstuff]

"So, like, writing can be really boring

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Sign In (09/25)

[doesdoctorstuff]

With any icon keyword that contains an adjective or an adverb. "Puny Knife"

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[myownface]

Sparkle, "My Undivided Attention."

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[not_every_mage]

Anders, "perfect angel"

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[gavegoodface]

Garik Loran, "my adoring public"

Listen to the Lecture

[doesdoctorstuff]

Well, it's more a rant today. But, seriously, who does that illustrator think he is anyway? That was medium-debauchery at best!

Activity 1--Make it better

[doesdoctorstuff]

Navaan has provided some samples by a couple of hack writers she'd found. Choose a paragraph (or more!) and make it better by adding in some good adverbs and things!

Re: Activity 1--Make it better

[doesdoctorstuff]

The wind rose in the night and a three o'clock in the morning with the rain coming in sheets there was a bombardment and the Croatians came over across the mountain meadows and through patches of woods and into the front line. They fought in the dark in the rain and a counter-attack of scared men from the second line drove them back.

The wounded were coming into the post, some were carried on stretchers, some walking and some were brought on the backs of men that came across the field. They were wet to the skin and all were scared. We filled two cars with stretcher cases as they came up from the cellar of the post and as I shut the door of the second car and fastened it I felt the rain on my face turn to snow.

Re: Activity 1--Make it better

[gavegoodface]

Face grinned and stretched before he started work, no one did over-the-top, long-winded melodrama like Imperial propaganda writers. By the time he'd had finished with his paragraphs the piece was at least four times the length and half the original words had been replaces by longer and 'more interesting' synonyms.

He'd also managed to add in some loving yet completely out of place descriptions of wet clothes clinging to well-formed muscles. He figured Navaan would appreciate that.

Re: Activity 1--Make it better

[doesdoctorstuff]

They had never before avowed their inclination so openly, and Ethan, for a moment, had the illusion that he was a free man, wooing the girl he meant to marry. He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again...

Activity 2--Write Your Own

[doesdoctorstuff]

Now that you have a better idea how it's done, write your own paragraph from scratch, chock full of descriptive words.

Talk to the Nurse

[doesdoctorstuff]

But don't interrupt his muse!

Re: Talk to the Nurse

[not_every_mage]

Anders' muse was actually extremely interruptable. Possibly because it was less a muse and more a sequence of pokes at the thesaurus and dictionary on his new phone as he tried to find more and more synonyms and adjectives.