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#38381 - 09/04/04 03:20 AM
Re: I'm new to writing, any advice?
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Registered: 01/27/04
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My best advice would be try not to get discouraged, persevere, do your research well and take advantage of all the great writing resources that are available both online and in your local library. If you have any specific questions, I'm sure those of us who write would be happy to help! This forum is chock full of helpful people and everyone is very supportive of each other's efforts - whatever they may be. Welcome to Dotsie's AWESOME Forum!
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#38386 - 09/07/04 02:52 PM
Re: I'm new to writing, any advice?
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Registered: 07/02/03
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Loc: Alabama
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TVC15--I'm so glad Dotsie brought this post back up because I didn't see you come in! WELCOME GIRL! I bet I'm not the only one who missed your entrance. Now, as far as the writing...give us a tad more to go on. What kind of writing do you offer? Mysteries? Romance? fiction? non-? Also, do you write short stories? poems? Or are you writing a novel? I'm sure everyone would be interested in knowing. It would also help us when offering sage bits and pieces of wisdom... I think you are going to find that this forum will be a God-send not only for your writing needs, but for friendships too. Now, I'm the resident Queen but you don't have to do the bowing and scraping thing anymore...just a simple curtsey will do...teehee... what? JJ
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#38389 - 09/07/04 04:35 PM
Re: I'm new to writing, any advice?
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Hi ya'll I'm still limping along with the computer from hell. The fixit folks keep telling me it's fixed. Maybe this time.
Anyway, JJ IS the QUEEN of BWS and of HUMOR, but I wanted to chime in on her comments about the horror genre. Horror scares me too. Publishers alone are horrible enough for me.
But, back to the Humor in Horror (Hey, there's a title for ya, jj) One of my professors advised us to write from our heart and to address the heart of our reader. Sounded good, but how? If writing gets too sappy it turns the reader off. Then a pastor who produced some of my work told me the way to open a person's heart for a message from the pulpit is to either lead them to sing or make them laugh then communicate the message. In my plays and musicals I try to tickle them, make them sing, break their hearts, then send them home with a smile. Sometimes it works, sometimes not, but... Maybe that would work with horror too. Seems like horror often addresses the passions, but not necessarily the heart. Maybe a little humor might be a novel approach. Hey, you gotta' do what you gotta' do. Right JJ? smile
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