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how can i be more specific in my written fiction stories ?

i need maj' help see when i was younger i wrote fantasies wonderful ons that would stretch to 20 to 100 pages and now that im older i am completly drained i cant even write anything specific anymore and all my stories are bland and boring any tips to make it better spice it up?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The first thing I suggest is working on your writing. Failure to capitalize and odd abbreviations are not beneficial.

    Find a writing community. http://sites.google.com/site/allusionsanddreams/ho...

    http://www.superheronation.com/ has wonderful articles.

  • Joss
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    If your stories are boring to you then maybe you need to think up more interesting ideas and plots. If I find that i'm writing a story that I'm not really interested in then I take that as a sign to shelve it and move on to something more interesting.

    I don't know what you mean by you can't even write anything specific anymore. What does that mean??? You don't have any ideas? Creative writers should be flowing with ideas.

    P.S. I find it hard to believe that your stories were wonderful when you were younger. One thing that makes a great writer is that they're able to distinguish between badly written work and that which is well written. I loved the stories I wrote as a child and they made my family laugh out loud, but they were in no way wonderful - BUT they were wonderful by a child's standard, but that's completely different to being wonderful as in well-written and would compete with anything I've written as an adult.

  • 1 decade ago

    Have you actually gone back and read those stories you wrote when you were younger, or are you basking in the memory?

    Remember that a first draft is just that, a first draft. Get the bones of the story down and then flesh it out in rewrites.

  • 1 decade ago

    There's a difference between being specific and spicing up a story.

    To make a story more specific, treat it as though it were non-fiction, and make sure you cover who, where, when, how, why and what.

    To spice it up, add details.

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