break up your paragraphs. big paragraphs are scary, your readers will get scared
fuuuuck epithets. âthe other man got upâ âthe taller woman sat downâ âthe blonde walked awayâ nahhh. call them by their names or rework the sentence. you can do so much better than this (exception: if the reader doesnât know the character(s) youâre referring to yet, itâs a-okay to refer to them by an identifying trait)
new speaker, new paragraph. please.
âsaidâ is such a great word. use it. make sweet love to it. but donât kill it
use âsaidâ more than you use synonyms for it. that way the use of synonyms gets more exciting. getting a sudden description of how a character is saying something (screaming, mumbling, sighing) is more interesting that way.
if your summary says âI suck at summariesâ or âstory better than summaryâ youâre turning off the reader, my dude. your summary is supposed to be your hook. you gotta own it, just like youâre gonna own the story theyâre about to read
follow long sentences w short ones and short ones w long ones. same goes for paragraphs
your writing is always better than you think it is. you just think itâs bad because the storyâs always gonna be predicable to the one whoâs writing it
i love u guys keep on trucking
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