Pirate Code=Writing Rules. Clearer now? š
The mark of a great storyteller is they make our job look easy. The story flows, pulls us in, and appears seamless. Many of us decided to become writers because we grew up loving books. Because good storytellers are masters of what they do, we can easily fall into a misguided notion that āwriting is easy.ā Granted there are a rare few exceptions, but most of us will go through three acts (stages) in this career if we stick it through.
Act OneāThe Neophyte
This is when we are brand new. Weāve never read a craft book and the words flow. We never run out of words to put on a page because we are like a kid banging away on a piano having fun and making up āmusic.ā We arenāt held back or hindered by any structure or rules and we have amazingā¦
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