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before I commit to something in earnest

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A few notes before I commit to something in earnest

I want to be a better storyteller. Good mechanics are a given. They tell me there are rules I can forsake in the interests of credible fiction, and there are rules that cannot be broken if I want to write great fiction.  I'm still trying to figure out how to post a literature entry on DA.

For now, any sentence that doesn't begin with "It was a dark and stormy night" or ends with "and they lived happily every after" will be considered an accomplishment of some merit.

Sifting through well worn tropes, I search for something that was missed by the thousands of other would be writers. All I come up with are sentence fragments, woven into the fabric of threadbare clichés.

It's disheartening to concede that this may be the best I can do after a good night's sleep.

Trying to pander to readers with the usual gratuities is an embarrassment to me and anyone who would take an interest in what I have to say. Sex and violence cannot be used as props or fillers.

Telling the truth may be all I have to offer. The truth, my truth is still too much for me to sort out. It's too emotionally charged for me to present in a coherent way.

It's not particularly original; I'm just not ready to bear my soul, even couched in the euphemistic symbolism of fiction.

The day will come again when I can trust myself with reorganizing facts into palatable fiction. Until then, I'll have to put the mechanics of writing on the front burner. Insert expected closing cliché here.
I'm just trying to figure out DA Postings.
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Reflective-Sentinal's avatar
Just so you know, I did check for a white font "and they lived happily every after".

Your take on writing is very interesting to me, and I will try to read your stuff. I find that art is similar.

Great art breaks the rules. Successful art follows them. Bad art ignores them.