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[apiphile]

Poetry

in which two images are shadows of each other
litany of what-ifs
what my mother never taught meCurrently mulling over how to improve pacing of fiction after getting accurate criticism of my inability to give stories a good proper resolution and narrative arc, but somewhat hindered by the same criticism taking a dump all over BDSM and

Comments

[wolfy_writing]

Pacing is massively hard. I'm really stuck on that aswang one because of pacing and trying not to make everything happen at once

[coniferous_you]

Well, I can't really speak for your genre exactly, but I recently got a manuscript back with the same "what about the resolution?" comment. My defense was that I'm Canadian, but I don't know if that worked for my reader. But the fact is, there are no resolutions and any ending is false, no matter what you write. Personally, I like stories that choose to leave at an organic moment where we know life will go on regardless, but the story is over. Of course, sometimes it's also okay for the story to end because the main character killed or brutally scarred everyone else in the story and has now decided to kill herself and her daughter (see: Mad Shadows/La Belle BeteWith regard to pacing, I have the opposite problem in that I get criticised about not having enough "backstory." But this is what comes of writing plays first and only turning to fiction when my creative writing prof said she couldn't rightly give me marks for a writing style she neither read nor wrote (nor watched, for that matter). but then falling in love with the genre