30 Days of Blogging: Day 15
I’ve been thinking of writing a book for a while now and I’ve been working out some of my ideas with some research. I want to write something along the lines of science fiction and I always like sci-fi books where there is some real science behind it or at least the concepts hold together even is the science isn’t entirely correct. I’ve been very underwhelmed by a lot of the new science fiction that I have been reading, nothing has been grabbing my attention and making it so that I can’t put the book down. The only thing that has been close had been some of the stuff by Peter Hamilton because his work really does hang together even if it is not always based on real science.
What I need to work on is to develop a method of working so that I can improve my writing. This blog is definitely helping. I feel as though I have been getting better at writing by practicing in this blog, but I also feel that the blog makes a lot of what I write one dimensional. It is mainly from my perspective and I’m not creating and developing characters or coming up with plots, story arcs and all of the other things that go along with writing a good story.
I invested in a Storyclock Notebook which comes at the whole idea of a story as a basic outline that follows some the work of Joseph Campbell. The outline is set up like a clock and your story just follows the hero’s journey as it travels around the clock. The method of the notebook suggests watching any movie, making a note of the time when each part happens and observing the patterns in different types of stories. Then you can use this knowledge with your own stories to develop a well-rounded narrative that doesn’t skip any steps in the story and helps you to develop out different parts.
I just need to practice myself and start working at it.
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