Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

A quick lesson in writing
Probably most stories are never completed. Sometimes, perhaps because the authors do not think they will
be good enough. Wich gives them such agony that they can’t continue, or get stuck in constantly edition of
the already written. The editing should wait until the whole story is finished and everybody that gets stuck,
should keep in mind that very little of all that is written is good. What you find in bookstores is just a small
part of all the stories written. The small part that the editors thought was good enough. So it may not be so
likely that they find that your story is good enough. But it doesn’t matter! Even if no one else will even want
to read it to the end, you have at least written it. You have created your own world, with your people and
your environment. It's fun and something to be proud of.
I think that most people who have an idea for a novel, first get an idea of the story. It's usually the story as it
is creative in a novel, the rest is a craft. There are of course exceptions, novels with new thinking on how for
instance environments are described. It does not mean that such novels are entertaining reading, maybe it's
the opposite. There are even novels that did not have its own story at all, but are still very entertaining. This
course does not dwell on such matters, rather it is about the craft of decorating a story with events, people,
environments and dialogue.
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