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Writing
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1 Name: Anonymous : 2020-03-08 22:45
I graduate soon and would love - LOVE - to write a novel or script. Does anyone have any particular writing resources, software, or communities they enjoy using and would like to recommend? Are there any other writers here that want to talk about the craft?
2 Name: Anonymous : 2020-03-08 22:46
Oh, or blogging places, too! I guess Neocities is good for that? I wouldn't know, I've never had a blog, but I used to read them a lot when I was a teenager.
3 Name: Anonymous : 2020-03-09 20:57
I don't write super seriously but I've started keeping a thesaurus on hand which seems to be really useful. It really helps for when you're trying to finish off a sentence and that last word is on the tip of your tongue but you can't quite figure it out. It feels great to just page through the book too haha
4 Name: Anonymous : 2020-03-12 02:52
>>1
I use Joplin for everything, from grocery lists to scripts. Markdown is great as it allows to format text on the fly.
I think writing communities are just a time sink. Find people interested in anything but writing to enrich yourself, read good books that you actually want to finish, and do the writing part alone.
5 Name: Anonymous : 2020-03-25 05:13
I've been using the fact that my universities closed to work on a draft of the thesis I'm supposed to be working on. It keeps me occupied and focused.
6 Name: Anonymous : 2020-03-25 19:02
(Extremely) amateur writer here. I write mostly as a fun side thing, but rn I'm helping a friend with a novel he's working on.

Some guides I like to refer to every now and then:

https://www.springhole.net/writing/index.html
http://www.milsf.com/
https://writerswrite.co.za/
Writing Excuses podcast


>>5
Haha I feel that. Quarantine's giving little excuse to slack off on writing.
7 Name: Anonymous : 2023-01-03 23:09
Time to revive this thread.

Is it possible to learn to write later in life? Even if I had a story in mind, I wouldn't know where to start in the first place. People say "just write!", but that is useless advice if you never did it regularly (or even at all...)

Would it be helpful to rewrite the ending of a book, or a whole short story, or will that just lead to bad habits that will be hard to break later? Maybe I'll just try my hand at fanfic or conveying a movie scene through text, dunno.
8 Name: Anonymous : 2023-01-06 21:53
>>7
What are you trying to write?
Start with asking yourself that. There's plenty of prompts, games, journaling exercises, essay topics, and otherwise. I don't see why you can't start late. You might need to hone in on a style, but to me a lot of interest in writing requires a good breadth of experience and knowledge to draw upon. Knowing how stories are put together helps, but theory can be learned and only goes so far. Read, read lots and lots and lots. And if you want meta books it really depends on your approach. Hero With a Thousand Faces is a staple for a reason, and it'd probably be worth checking out if only to get a feel for such things. It's also nice to write something by the numbers in order to get an idea with how to operate within the rules before you break them. Anyways, I wish you luck on your endeavors.
9 Name: Anonymous : 2023-01-19 20:12
>>7
Is it possible to learn to write later in life?
Not sure about "learning" to write but in my 30s I've started to write a lot, for no specific reason. I just started to write a thing and then another, and now it became a habit. I've always kept a journal, though, but it was not creative writing, more like sad/shitposting on paper, so it doesn't count.

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