My first blog this year. I looked at my first story which I wrote about an year and a half back and found quite a surfeit of mistakes in it. If I list them down,
1. The story is about 12 pages long. I can snip enough of it to reduce it to less than ten pages.
2. It has more adverbs than a manly man has hair. I found one sentence which had three adverbs in it.
3. A plethora of exclamation marks! I seem to have some sort of hidden love for them. Every third sentence seemed to end with an exclamation mark.
4. Overusage of actually, seemingly, and basically. Basically all of these words can actually be removed without changing the sentence in any way seemingly.
5. There are descriptions which can be improved, but I think that will change the style of the story and make the narration inconsistent. So dunno whether that would be an improvement. (I was going to type actually between would and be. I need to see whether I use actually too much even while talking.)
Overall, the story can use an overhaul. What I am pleased about is that I can understand what went wrong and in ways that went wrong.
Note to myself: You should keep all stories you write on the backburner for at least a month before going in for a final draft. You are more likely to see additional mistakes then.
Second note to myself: If you end up without writing a book, that will not be because you don't have the talent or the wherewithal to do so, but because you lack the desire and the intention to get off your stinking butt and write.
Third note to myself: The effing bastards on TV are not important. They have already made it big in life, while you are still sucking apples.
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