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Tag: Anime
If you’ve ever watched anime before, then you know there’s a bunch of weird stuff that happens.
Nosebleeds when seeing an attractive woman, massive hammers casually pulled out of interdimensional space, and of course, running to school with bread in your mouth because you’re late.
But what can we learn from all of this insanity, and how can we apply it to our own storytelling?
If you only ever read one article on improving your writing, make it this one.
This is one of the easiest, quickest ways to improve your writing skills.
All it takes is a little… murder.
Sometimes when you finish a first draft, or even when you’re just partway through a draft, you might sit back and realize that your story makes no sense.
It can be a terrible feeling. This story that you’ve poured months or years of your life into needs to be fixed, but you don’t know how to do it.
One good way to tackle that problem is by getting some practice beforehand fixing stories in books and movies that you don’t like.
For the last stream, we did something that we haven’t done in a while: rewriting the beginning to a viewer’s story.
When MetaWarrior shared their piece during the freeshare part of the previous stream, I thought it would be a perfect candidate for a writing makeover. It had potential, but it was a little vague and bland at the beginning. So we decided to rewrite it and spice it up!
To do this, we made sure to set the scene and tone right from the start, and to give the reader the who/what/when/where/hook as soon as possible. That way they could visualize what was going on, and want to continue reading.
Here’s what we came up with: