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feuervogel) wrote2009-09-14 10:26 am
feuervogel) wrote2009-09-14 10:26 am
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Wangst and weemo
I read a lot of writers' blogs. Or LJs, whatever. And I've started to feel like I'm inadequate and inept as a writer, because I wasn't an English major. I'm not Trained in things like Narrative Technique, Structure, and Symbolism, and I'm not well-read enough in classics, folklore, or myths to make use of Allusions.
I'm an impostor.
All I've got is some characters, a story idea, and 20-odd years of reading spec fic (and some Real Books™). No technique, no ideas for creative symbolism or structure or literary allusions.
I'm never gonna sell anything.
I'm an impostor.
All I've got is some characters, a story idea, and 20-odd years of reading spec fic (and some Real Books™). No technique, no ideas for creative symbolism or structure or literary allusions.
I'm never gonna sell anything.
no subject
I don't think that outline exactly maps to chapters - it's like, this is what's going to happen with enough backstory for me to work it out without having to go back and fix gaping plot holes, only small ones. (And since then, I've decided I need to include a POV from the resistance on Centauri 7, but I'm stuck on them at the moment and moving on.)