(http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w37/Quikthnkr/GUNBABY/Webcomics%20Community/gibsonicon.png) | The following is the sixth in a series of six tutorials designed to help novice writers build a better story. You're going to hate this part. Like the devil, Review is known by many names. Revision, rewriting, editing... whatever you call it, you have to do it, and the reason is simple. You aren't good enough not to. No one is. Some of you out there might be fans of Jack Kerouac and chanting his mantra, first words, best |
If I tried to work like that I'd go mad.
No one here is trying to offend so please don't take offense.
This series wasn't designed to give hard and fast rules for how to write well, but instead is meant as a guideline you can use to think about how you can write better. The rules by which you write and the rules by which everyone writes aren't the same, and the difference between them is what distinguishes you from other writers. After all, a good writer knows how to follow the rules and a great writer knows how to break them, but you have to know the rules to know which ones you can break and you have to be good before you can be great.