For this week's story lab, I explored the Writer's Write website and read three different articles. My thoughts on each will be summarized below. Overall I liked this site a lot. There were so many different types of articles about every aspect of writing. I will say that there were so many ads on the site it took forever to get pages to load which was a disappointment.
45 Ways to Avoid Using the Word Never This article is mostly just a list of adjectives to use instead of very. For example, instead of saying very tired, say exhausted. I chose to read this article because I know that I sometimes fall into the very trap. I just get lazy and don't want to think too hard about another, stronger word so I just put in very. To combat that I can definitely come back to this article when I feel stuck to give my writing more oomph.
The 17 Most Popular Genres in Fiction I was interested to read this article because there are so many genres I have never really thought about. I was interested to see what kind of genres would be the most popular. I consider myself a reader who is open to any drama but typically prefers a mystery novel. I also enjoy sci-fi, fantasy, horror, young adult, and thriller but I prefer only select sub-genres of those larger genres. I also found it interesting to put a name to the genres of books I read. The final genre was literary fiction which perfectly described the types of books I do not like. I prefer heavily plot-driven books and therefore usually don't like literary fiction as it is very slow.
5 Secret Tricks to Make Your Writing Stronger I read this article to see if there were any tips I could apply to my own writing. A lot of the tips focus on specificity and imagery. This is definitely one of my weak points as I have a hard time describing a scene visually. The examples the article gives definitely illustrate the power of adding more detail and specificity to scenes. It is details like that which transport a reader to the world created by you, so it is definitely something I want to work on.
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The 17 Most Popular Genres in Fiction I was interested to read this article because there are so many genres I have never really thought about. I was interested to see what kind of genres would be the most popular. I consider myself a reader who is open to any drama but typically prefers a mystery novel. I also enjoy sci-fi, fantasy, horror, young adult, and thriller but I prefer only select sub-genres of those larger genres. I also found it interesting to put a name to the genres of books I read. The final genre was literary fiction which perfectly described the types of books I do not like. I prefer heavily plot-driven books and therefore usually don't like literary fiction as it is very slow.
5 Secret Tricks to Make Your Writing Stronger I read this article to see if there were any tips I could apply to my own writing. A lot of the tips focus on specificity and imagery. This is definitely one of my weak points as I have a hard time describing a scene visually. The examples the article gives definitely illustrate the power of adding more detail and specificity to scenes. It is details like that which transport a reader to the world created by you, so it is definitely something I want to work on.
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