Lessons We Keep Learning

[rsadelle]

I have now learned the same lesson twice while working on the same story: just because I wrote something down doesn't mean it has to stay that way. I don't know why this is so difficult with this particular story. I know that you can rewrite and rework things. And yet with this particular story, once I write something I seem to think that's the way it has to be. Once I let go of that and just changed the things that needed to be changed, it worked much better.

What lessons, writing or otherwise, do you keep learning?

Comments

[mayqueen517.livejournal.com]

I have learned: "beside of" should be stricken from anything I write. ;-)

And I've learned a lot about dialogue and how to write it. I used to NEVER write dialogue. I hated it. Also, one thing I had to learn was that it's okay to skip scenes that aren't coming. Just because you can't write one scene RIGHT NOW doesn't mean you'll NEVER be able to write it.

[rsadelle]

Hee! I think one of the hardest things about fan fic is trying to sound like someone different from you. You get some of that with original fic, but with fan fic, you have to sound like a specific someone.

Huh. I love dialogue, and I've had to learn how to write things that aren't dialogue. One of the things I've been enjoying about prompt snippets is that since they're so short, I don't feel like it has to have all the description and I can write more things that are just the dialogue.