Share your Writing Knowledge (I will share mine!)

[junipercayenne]

Yesterday, I got to skip school for a day (without penalty) to go to a Young Author's Conference at a nearby art muesum. Here are some new things I learned about writing:

1. When being a peer editor of a first draft, keep in mind the author of the work will always know what they mean, but they won't know if the reader knows. It helps to keep your eyes open for unclear details. When your finnishid reading put your comments into questions like:
"Why did you grip and release the table cloth?" or "How did you know the blue heron had a family?"

2. Alll stories should have little, discriptive, however not majorly important details. Adding these details is easier in personal narritives because you remember these things auctully happened. In fiction, you have to make 'em up from scratch. Keep this in mind in fiction writing.

3. You need to follow the directions of the publisher if you want get published, be prepared to do so in further writing career.

4.......

(Anyone have knowledge or tips to share?)

[taliesin]

4. I'm quoting from Stephen King's book "On Writing." It's part memoir, part instruction manual on writing. Here's my quote... "cut down on the bullshit."

[Ramona]

Alas, I have no tips to offer as of yet, but I just felt the uncontrollable urge to say that I ahve that book, and it is totally polar, and rocks. The end, I shall take my leave now.

[ciel]

5. You become good at whatever you spend the most time doing, whether it's poetry, short story, or novel writing, introspective, interrogative, or derogative work, romance, sci-fi, or fantacy, and even picking your nose. Practice makes perfect, but it has to be consistent and it helps a lot to try and experience new ways of writing, especially when your progress slows down or you hit a brick wall.

[conversesneaker]

6.Learn about your subject
7.When unsure of how the story should go, ask yourself, what would my charecter do?Never what will I have her do? NEVER do soemthing out of your charecter's instincts or personality unless there's a really good reason. And it's hard to find a good reason.
8. Unless you are Lemony Snicket, don't let the reader know what will happen, only clue them in on what the main charecter knows. It adds suspense.