The Unfortunate Bio of TheWalkingDaryl

Writing Techniques pt.2 (05/06/18)

Hey hey.

So I saw something on Facebook and was like "yo I should write another uninformative part on writing stuff!", so here we now are.

Wonderful. 😊😊

I hope you're all excited for more tangents and more information!
Because that's what's gonna happen...

So this pic is gonna be relevant to what this part focuses on.

A lot of people seem to forget about the fact that you have to be able to feel every part of your story so that everyone else will.

It's incredibly important because feeling in words is an incredibly amazing thing.

If you can't feel it when you read it, no-one else will.

If you read someone else's works and you feel what the characters feel then it's a good story.
Same goes for when you write stories. You have to feel something or else it won't ever do any good.

Well...unless you're half of the fanfic writers on here...but we won't get into that right now...

Anyweh...

Story time!!

So way back in good ol' 2014, I wrote a series. Some of you may know it, some of you may not. If you've had a brief glance over my works then you'll probably already have figured out what I'm talking about. If not, go scope out my stuff and (read it all), find what I'm talking about 😊

Those who have indeed read the Outcast Series will know what I'm talking about through this story.

It took me seven months to write the five blah blah blah.

Anyway, within that seven months, every bit of that series, I put my heart and soul into; I felt every part of it and I still do when I read it.

Being able to get your audience feeling for your characters in any sort of way, whether it's hate, love, sadness, pity; whatever the case, feeling is good.

It's such a vital part of storytelling and sadly a lot of people lack that element. I don't know if I'm just incredibly judgemental or something but this seems to be a big thing that people miss.

You could have the best grammar and storyline in the world but without getting feeling into it, it won't mean a thing.

I was going to talk about something else but now I can't remember what it was about...

I can't even think of what it could be to do with.

Something story related.

Oh, I remember!

I was thinking of doing a separate part in here on editing for covers and stuff, like for the banners and covers that I do if anyone would be interested in me doing that. If you guys have seen my edits and like them...

It would include things such as the different layers and stuff I do in photoshop and how I personally do the edits so that maybe you guys can give it a shot when making covers.

If that made sense at all. Would that be an interesting thing for me to put in here, because if you struggle with edits maybe some of my techniques could work for you guys.

Also, I updated the cover for WKYA, if you haven't already seen it. Thanks to Starelf555 for the idea of who to put on the cover; you're a legend.

I'll put it in here now. I don't have the proper full graphic for it on here so I just screenshot the thing...

Anyway, have a good one everyone. Let me know thoughts on this part and whatcha think of me doing one on edits.

Bye everyone!