YOU CAN BE A CREATIVE WRITER AND BE RUBBISH WITH LANGUAGE, SPELLING, AND GRAMMAR!
Now let's put that in our pipes and smoke it...
As a creative playwrite, author and blogger, I have given Aubrey, my alter ego, a third voice for a while now but I don't feel I can give my full effort when speaking third person.
So the gloves are off and Aubrey & I are one and I have a lot to say!
For all publications outside social media, my work is professionally edited. My books have been written and are currently being edited. They will be paid for in Steem as part of the pilot project steemit publishing by @steemitwrite.
My plays are edited for free by our theatre group editor. It's important to get edited by the right people with the right expertise in that area. However, I won't lie, editing is expensive.
I have every confidence in my editors, I would not choose others and must express the importance in that confidence. However I have little confidence in my editing, because I get word blindness. I am going to try two things to build my confidence in my grammar to support my online presence. It would be impossible to get edited on every blog.
My writing may not look too bad, but that's because I use grammarly.
- Write at least 3,000 words every day to massage my writing brain. (I work on about 2,000 now with blogging, studying and book writing)
- I am going to pilot a short story on KDP using editing software (Premium Grammarly) as an experiment and publish the said book in a dyslexic friendly way. Apparently, all the tools are there on KDP, all I need Is a book cover which I will create myself.
There are software problems that do help. I use grammarly and recently @audax mentioned dragon software. They may have more detail on that.
One last thing, before I step off my soap box. I do struggle with my dyslexic eyes to read on Steemit and I'm sure anyone like me would have the same issue.
I would love to hear more on how to make Steemit blogs more reader friendly.
That is all for now...
I write movie/book reviews, short stories, poems and other various fiction pieces. If you have a good bit of creative writing drop it in the comments. Any irrelevant links or comments asking for likes etc, I will ignore. Sorry about that...actually I'm not.
Firstly, I would say that it doesn't help much if a mediocre, boring story is written in a grammatically perfect way. Its still boring then.
For myself, I don't expect to have the grammar right. Not in english, because it's not my native language and I learned it on a autodidactic base.
But not even in German, which is my native language. Since I went to school, we had about 3 "grammar reforms" in Germany, where rules and spelling of a lot of words been randomly changed.
To be honest, I don't give a damn anymore. If someone doesn't understand what I meant to say, he can ask me again. Or not.
I totally get what you are saying here. My son doesn't write but reads ALOT. I think writers sometimes forget that some readers don't write and want writing that looks normal not regimented. He says that he cannot read a book if it goes into to much description and he reads big head twisting books than need a lot of attention. The books have to be simply written, sometimes I think trying to be too perfect sends a book, or writing off track...
Well, as I said, first a good book needs a good story. A crappy story can be told as eloquently as it can be, it stays a crappy story.
And secondly, I think a writer should stay... how to put it... natural. Tell a story the way he would tell it by nature, and not try to tell it like somene else would have. That is the essence in all art, I guess. A musician can try to make a piece of music that sounds like one from a famous musician, or a painter can make a painting that looks like a typical Kandinsky. But thats just saying something about the technical skills, not about artistic expression.
Oh well, I should stop babbling. :) All I wanted to say is, write the way you want to tell a story to someone. There are no laws about how many complicated words need to be in a book.
You are not babbling....and I agree!
yeah, as an experimental writer who likes to color outside the lines, i'd have to disagree with the idea of writing in a "natural" way. there's nothing better than forcing one's self to try other styles that they're not familiar with in an effort to learn something new that might get added to their literary arsenal of storytelling. trying to write like another writer opens up other avenues that could possibly become natural to the writer if they find they like the nature of the style and it comes more easily than other styles before it.
but you're right; "write the way you want to tell a story to someone" is a perfect maxim.
For anyone interested, the Dragon Software is by Nuance, see here: http://www.nuance.co.uk/naturallyspeaking/index.html
Be aware that Dragon does take time to train, particularly if you have an accent or dialectal pronunciation that differs from East Coast USA (Northern).
Everyone marches to the beat of their own drum. It is the same for writers. You need to find your own unique voice. Editing can come later. Just get your story out there on paper. I am a perfectionist, which means I agonize over each and every word. It is important to me to have a good story, one that people will want to read. And be damned if someone critiques my work without constructive critiques. I don't do trolls.
Wonderful comment...no I don't do trolls in fact I don't like confrontation full stop. But I am very determined and I do tend to ignore over opinionated people with big ego's who try to tell yu how to write....
It's true, you don't need professional editing but a modicum of proof reading works wonders :0)
I do when it comes to bigger publications and my scripts lol. I'm known as a word dropper. I sometimes miss whole sentances lol
We are all guilty of it!
WOOHOO! Go YOU!
That's some fire you've got there! Keep it up and I'm cheering you on!
Thank you lovely ! She's come out!
follow me plzzzzz
I am seeing off to cross the river Styx? Fancy following me? I will bring sandwiches!
hahahaha....If that invitation is open to me i'll pass lol
Quite rightly too!
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STOPI am lucky to get my longer posts edited.
You are lucky I get my posts edited. :)
Your plan sounds good to me. We run two publishing imprints, one is for only proofread and edited and the other we don't care so much.
I think mixing the two does not work. Publishing quality work, and not so finished work, under the same name can hurt your future readers.
You only get one chance to impress and if they read your unedited work first, your edited and proofread stuff will never get read.