Waving Good-bye
"the story tells itself"
I believe everyone has the ability to tell stories and write; however, it is having the patience to sit down and spend time writing. It's a talent that needs practice just like playing a sport or an instrument. Creative writing is an individual process that has no set way to go about writing. It's just each person trying to figure out what works for them. It could be sitting down and writing non-stop for an hour or it could be going for a walk in order to think of something to write. I do not think this book explained how to write. I know that its different for everyone and the book should have explained different approaches to writing prose. I think it could have started off at the beginning with a short exercise that as you read each exercise added to the last one-so at the end you have a short story and not just pieces of writing. I think it could have explained how to take a story that is in first person and turn it into third person narration. I think a chapter on how to revise a prose piece would have also been helpful. Anyone can think of a story to tell or have an idea for a story, but understanding how to tell the story so that other people can understand and see what you want them to see is difficult. I do not think the book was very helpful in understanding what details to include and how to "show and not just tell" what happens.
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