The Unknown Title

A Book by EraseMe

im still coming up with a title for this book im writing so if you have a suggestion for me then let me know itll be a big of a help. Thanks.

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© 2016 EraseMe

Author's Note

ignore grammar, and spelling, i and still a beginner, and im a starter, so it wont be as good as other books

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JayG

• ignore grammar, and spelling

No can do. If you're not willing to take the time to spell check and get the punctuation right no way in hell will you have taken the time to learn the techniques of constructing a scene. And if you don't know what the elements of a scene on the page are, how can you write one? Will you provide the three things a reader needs quickly to provide context? Will you handle the scene-goal if you don't know what it is and why it's necessary? Will you know that a new speaker requires a new paragraph, how to handle tags, dialog, and all the basics of fiction that aren't mentioned in our schooldays writing? Of course not. No one doubts your dedication and desire to please the reader, but there's a lot more to writing fiction than there appears to be, and there's a lot about it that's not obvious till it's pointed out—which is true of any profession.

I know that this may seem harsh, but one of the best kept secrets is that we do NOT learn to write in school as a publisher views that act. All those reports and essays were meant to perfect skills employers require, not make fiction writers of us. Employers want us to have nonfiction skills, which are fact-based and author-centric—meant to inform. So that's what we learn. And who's to tell us different? Our teachers learned their writing skills in the same classrooms.

But fiction is emotion-based and character-centric. It's designed to entertain, so the skills needed are very different from what you were taught.

You can learn them, of course, as easily as you learned the skills you presently own (though it takes time to perfect them). But if you want to write work that's as readable as what the pros provide you have to know what a pro knows. No way around that.

But that's true of any profession, so it's not all that big a deal, and is part of preparing yourself for the task.

Sure, it would be great if the reading we do would teach us what we need to know, but it no more does that than watching TV gives us the skills of a director or screenwriter.

If you were meant to be a writer you'll find the learning fun, and the local library system's fiction writing department is a great place to begin—and it's free. You also might want to poke around in the writing articles in my blog. They're written for the newer writer.

Hang in there, and keep on writing.

Jay Greenstein
https://jaygreenstein.wordpress.com/category/the-craft-of-writing/

Posted 8 Years Ago

• ignore grammar, and spelling

No can do. If you're not willing to take the time to spell check and get the punctuation right no way in hell will you have taken the time to learn the techniques of constructing a scene. And if you don't know what the elements of a scene on the page are, how can you write one? Will you provide the three things a reader needs quickly to provide context? Will you handle the scene-goal if you don't know what it is and why it's necessary? Will you know that a new speaker requires a new paragraph, how to handle tags, dialog, and all the basics of fiction that aren't mentioned in our schooldays writing? Of course not. No one doubts your dedication and desire to please the reader, but there's a lot more to writing fiction than there appears to be, and there's a lot about it that's not obvious till it's pointed out—which is true of any profession.

I know that this may seem harsh, but one of the best kept secrets is that we do NOT learn to write in school as a publisher views that act. All those reports and essays were meant to perfect skills employers require, not make fiction writers of us. Employers want us to have nonfiction skills, which are fact-based and author-centric—meant to inform. So that's what we learn. And who's to tell us different? Our teachers learned their writing skills in the same classrooms.

But fiction is emotion-based and character-centric. It's designed to entertain, so the skills needed are very different from what you were taught.

You can learn them, of course, as easily as you learned the skills you presently own (though it takes time to perfect them). But if you want to write work that's as readable as what the pros provide you have to know what a pro knows. No way around that.

But that's true of any profession, so it's not all that big a deal, and is part of preparing yourself for the task.

Sure, it would be great if the reading we do would teach us what we need to know, but it no more does that than watching TV gives us the skills of a director or screenwriter.

If you were meant to be a writer you'll find the learning fun, and the local library system's fiction writing department is a great place to begin—and it's free. You also might want to poke around in the writing articles in my blog. They're written for the newer writer.

Hang in there, and keep on writing.

Jay Greenstein
https://jaygreenstein.wordpress.com/category/the-craft-of-writing/

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