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 dmoonfire | I've done a few essays as written by in-world characters. I liked the results, but it was jarring with the third-person limited views of the other stories so I suspect I won't do much many more. But, it is fun to do... just didn't fit the world theme. | 16:08:42 |
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 Katie Ampersand | in the case of this story, this works really well because the story's just a way to teach the reader about a board game i made | 00:46:02 |
| Katie Ampersand | so the story's written by renown competitive Baishu player Raokji Cîang | 00:46:47 |
| Katie Ampersand | and he narrates what baishu means to him and the people around him | 00:47:03 |
| Katie Ampersand | what, to him, made it pass from being "a silly taboo about a slab of wood" to a truly magical experience | 00:47:46 |
 Fluffy Something-Or-Other | Hrm. So I'm writing a special side thing and I'm out of ideas for the middle. I have a clear beginning and a clear climax and ending, but I can't think of stuff to put in the middle. | 02:37:14 |
| dmoonfire | Fluffy Something-Or-Other: That can be hard. My main way of handling that is to go with Dwight V. Swain's idea of the MRU (Motivation-Reaction Unit) and basically start at the beginning. Have the character do something, what is the response that would guide them toward the ending (or a midpoint crisis or whatever) and then just keep going with the "something happens" -> "how do they react" (-> "how does something else react to that" -> "how do they react") cycle until I get there. | 15:24:15 |
| dmoonfire | Also, Swain's Scene/Sequel can help. Jim Butcher does it too, but basically you have scenes were something goes wrong or there is a conflict. Then a "sequel" is where the characters have a chance to go "well, that wouldn't work, how about we do this" which then leads into a "scene" where something goes wrong. | 15:25:16 |
| dmoonfire | Those two concepts, MRU and Scene/Sequel, are a good way of getting through a middle slog. MRU is more of the micro-level (paragraphs) while S/S gets you through the bigger ones. And a S/S is basically just a sequence of MRUs. :) | 15:26:20 |
| dmoonfire | That's basically how I write. I start with how it ends, figure out where to start, and then just focus on "what's next" until I get to the end, with the "what's next" being something that would eventually lead to the end. | 15:27:59 |
| dmoonfire | You can also tie this into the Snowflake Method, if you use that. | 15:28:12 |
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