Comments on: Refresh Your Vision

By: Bren

Bren — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:41:22 +0000

Thanks, Eric, that’s really nice. I’m enjoying your site very much. I just blogged on one of your posts. I can see I’ll be spending a lot of time here. :-)

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:52:57 +0000

Thanks Bren! I’m glad you’re enjoying the posts. Thanks for commenting. I’ve added you to my Writing Links and will be checking out the posts you’ve got over on your site over the next few days. :)

By: Bren

Bren — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:13:55 +0000

What a great post. I like the way you stepped back and reminded yourself why you are writing the story. I’m going to remember this. :)

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:35:43 +0000

I guess when I think of writing I think of it as story. As of this point I have to rework my entire ch. 5. It doesn’t work (my intial idea didn’t work out as I thought it would). However I kept ‘telling the story’ because 1) I didn’t know how to fix it and 2) Ideas to fix a part of the story usually present themselves to me later on.

You can fix ‘story’ later too. Bad storytelling can be fixed I beleive in revision process. Chances are…you’ve put so much thought and effort into creating this story to begin with that your ‘bad storytelling’ is probably only a fraction of the entire story. Cause sometimes scenes we envisioned (sp) don’t quite work out…but I bet it’s only a handful of scenes…and I bet you’re aware of where those scenes are…which means you can fix them.

Everyone has some bad storytelling here and there. I don’t think a story is ever perfect first go around. You’ve got a good foundation it sounds like though. You’ve thought it out, you know how your story works, moves, unfolds…

(did any of that make sense? And I even still on topic of your original post?)

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:08:16 +0000

You can fix bad writing later. But what about bad storytelling?

When I get stuck on something it\’s usually not the writing. For me the writing is almost… secondary. It\’s relatively unimportant when faced with the concerns of the story. Story first, writing second.

Sometimes I get so wrapped up in the story that I forget about some of the cool themes of my sci-fi world that I need to express.