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Q&A Story Structure

It seems you have done enough reading/thinking about writing, and should go ahead with writing. You do have your "toolbox", now you need practice. Make outlines and follow through with writing. Wh...

posted 9y ago by Akash‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Akash‭ · 2019-12-08T05:02:44Z (about 5 years ago)
It seems you have done enough reading/thinking about writing, and should go ahead with writing. You do have your "toolbox", now you need practice. Make outlines and follow through with writing. When you have enough of it, in a split second it'll occur to you when its time. You can always structure your story even during second draft. First drafts are for putting down your story, minus the fancy words, structure, and anything else that isn't story.

Story structure usually happens on itself. You can create a rough outline and start writing, but you can follow a strict structure,it is better if you dont. After all you are writing Fiction. You can't expect to put story inside a formula and churn out a book. Like other's suggest, structure is easy to see after a first draft is finished, and impossible to get to a draft with structure alone.

Story telling comes first, anything else can wait.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2016-02-16T06:01:45Z (almost 9 years ago)
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