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Sporadic writing exercise #3 - Building tension (self.writingtips)

submitted 1 year ago by Impronoucabl to c/writingtips

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Taking a bit of a breather, here's the next exercise!

Random Prompt: Frying pan

Here is your task:

#Write a piece as to be unsatisfying as possible.

Some tips:

The goal of this is to practice build tension, even if there's no way to satisfying release it.
Focus more on the how/now than the payoff later.

You don’t have to post your piece, but if you do, I’m happy to provide some basic feedback. I encourage others to do the same, so we can all learn from each other.

Bonus: If there’s a particular thing you want to work on, let me know in the comments, & I’ll see if I can tailor future tasks to accommodate our needs.

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[–] naught101 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the feedback! Pretty new to fiction, so this is useful.

Yeah, I didn't do an edit of this, posted more or less straight after writing. I am definitely starting to get the value of an edit/re-write to add some telegraphing of what's coming and to clean up the pacing and remove or do more to tie in loose pieces (like the knee hole). Will do that more in the future.

I might come back to this one, see how I'm feeling in a few weeks.