12-06-2017, 02:04 PM
I usually poke the keys on my keyboard, until there is text.
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On a more serious note, I tend to think about what I myself want to write, in the first place. If I'm not having fun writing it, it generally shows in the quality of it.
To add to that, I try to think about pacing when I write. If nothing ever happens, it's not much of a read, is it?
Unless of course, the entire point of that section is, that there's absolutely nothing happening. Whether that be to give the characters a breather, or to create an eerie situation of "It's eerily normal right now"
AND BOOOOM something's happening again.
So to put it simply, I try to always keep something happening, in some way, whilst it being something I actually want to write.
Of course, that is at the same time dancing at the blade's edge.
How to keep a ravishing tempo on, without tiring the reader to it? Such is, why the pacing is so important. So that the "something is happening" doesn't start to feel like "nothing's happening."
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On a more serious note, I tend to think about what I myself want to write, in the first place. If I'm not having fun writing it, it generally shows in the quality of it.
To add to that, I try to think about pacing when I write. If nothing ever happens, it's not much of a read, is it?
Unless of course, the entire point of that section is, that there's absolutely nothing happening. Whether that be to give the characters a breather, or to create an eerie situation of "It's eerily normal right now"
AND BOOOOM something's happening again.
So to put it simply, I try to always keep something happening, in some way, whilst it being something I actually want to write.
Of course, that is at the same time dancing at the blade's edge.
How to keep a ravishing tempo on, without tiring the reader to it? Such is, why the pacing is so important. So that the "something is happening" doesn't start to feel like "nothing's happening."
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