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| style="padding-left: 5%;" | [[The E-Publishing Dilemma]] | |||
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Revision as of 20:24, 8 January 2008
Writing is one of the oldest artforms, but writing fiction is one of the newest. Like any other artform it looks deceptively easy to get into, but once you start the hidden troubles show up. The best authors will tell you that you can't just learn how to write, but this is only partially true. There is a facet to writing that is a learned skill and a facet that you have to be born with.
To the layperson writing is simply stringing words together into a coherent whole. And, to an extent, that is the truth—it's also the part of the art that can be taught. Anyone can learn how to string words together into a coherent sentence and string hundreds of those sentences into a coherent story, but unless you are born with the gift of knowing how to tell a story the end product is, more often than not, bland and built of tiresome cliches and rehashed plots. But if you have been born a storyteller the end product shines, what cliches and rehashed plots it may contain used and retold in such a manner that they seem new again.
This &lquo;Writers School&rquo; is an attempt to break that mold. Not only is it going to try and teach those people who are born storytellers ways to improve their skills, but it is going to try and teach people how to tell the stories. In here you can find articles on creating believable characters and worlds, tips about how to escape many common pitfalls that snare many writers.
Before Writing
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Writing the Story
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After Writing
| Title | Description | Author |
| The E-Publishing Dilemma | <<Needs a blurb>> | Rabbit |
| Getting Published | Tips and Tricks for those people wishing to get published | Rabbit |
General Advice
| Title | Description | Author |
| Beating Block | Different Methods of Beating Writers Block | Rabbit |