Another thing that I find very useful, if there's something I'm specifically struggling with, is to look at the mechanics of how a favorite writer handles it.
Oh, that's a good one. I've actually found myself doing this quite often, lately; asking myself "okay, so how would so-and-so author go about doing this?" I also do the reverse, look at books I didn't enjoy or enjoyed but found hard to read to know what not to do. Like the story I mentioned in my example. The story was good but, man, the author rambled, and that's something I'm personally not a fan of (I say "personally" since, like you mentioned, there may be some who do like it. But as authors, what we write is usually what we want to read and the way we want to read it).
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Date: 2011-10-17 07:12 pm (UTC)From:Oh, that's a good one. I've actually found myself doing this quite often, lately; asking myself "okay, so how would so-and-so author go about doing this?" I also do the reverse, look at books I didn't enjoy or enjoyed but found hard to read to know what not to do. Like the story I mentioned in my example. The story was good but, man, the author rambled, and that's something I'm personally not a fan of (I say "personally" since, like you mentioned, there may be some who do like it. But as authors, what we write is usually what we want to read and the way we want to read it).