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It's just like regular tennis but without the racket!
Tennis is actually pretty cool
Preface: I teach HS English and am a stickler for outlines in an academic context. I often argue that the small amount of "extra" work up front saves mountains of time and headaches in the end, plus you'll end up with a better end product. So of course I brought that mentality to my writing.
The problem, I realized after having published two novels and am finishing up my third, was that I was using the same outline structure I would use for an essay and that TOTALLY doesn't work (at least as well as I thought it would).
So the basic essay structure is split up into different sections. The idea being as concise and specific as possible. A skeleton or framework of the bigger work. I mimicked that for my writing. But what it really boiled down to was a fancy looking plot diagram - which works to a degree.
The problem that I ran into over and over again with the traditional outline was that there were too many blind spots that I had to wing on the spot. I assumed that I would piecemeal the parts together during the drafting process. So I would write, then delete, then write, and delete and so on.
The reason, I finally realized, was that when drafting, I was focused on both style and plot (note that this is why people say first draft worst draft. What they're actually saying is that your first draft should focus entirely on plot elements and subsequent drafts focus on style). I kept spinning my wheels in the mud.
So I dropped back and tried something a bit different. I went old school. Grabbed a pen and paper and wrote a scene by scene detail of what happens in the chapter I was stuck on. It got me out of my hole instantly. I detailed the remainder of the book this way. When everything was said in done, I had about 15 pages front and back hand-written of the entirety of my book (think like you were reading a chapter summary on Sparknotes - that's what it read like).
The reason this works is that when I go to open Google Docs or whatever, I don't have to focus on plot at all. That's already been done for me. Instead I focus on style. So on my paper it might say "Timmy walks to school while daydreaming about his crush and realizes he forgot his lunchbox" on the first line. I'll then start focusing on the stylistic way of delivering that (to me, the fun part of writing). Then I'll highlight it on my paper which I now treat as a checklist.
The end product is so much better. Yes, obviously, I still have to revise, but this, for me, allows me to focus on oth
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One of the big complaints about TLJ is that it pretty much disregarded so many of the mysteries from The Force Awakens. Everyone says it's as if Rian Johnson wanted nothing to do with all the stuff JJ Abrams set up and disregarded it all.
That can't be right, can it? When Disney was rebooting the trilogy, even using different directors, shouldn't they have had some idea on what the story would be over these 3 movies? The way Johnson disregarded all the TFA mysteries makes it seem like Disney had no idea what direction they were going with after all those mysteries now, and that makes no sense to me. I just don't understand it at all.
A lot of controversial questions are answered too. Eg they answer bakit di pa natatanggal si joy belmonte sa pwesto.
What I mean by that is: if he said "Fuck the books" openly and instead releases an outline detailing how the story goes, how characters end and how those characters change on the course of the story. Frankly, I wouldn't mind that at all. How about the rest of you? Edit: My first post with some measure traction e.e
