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Pt. 2 lol
Thank you so much for the message congratulations on writing in a second language—first is hard enough, let alone writing in a language as cracked as English lol
I’ll do my best to answer your questions! First of all, at the moment, no, I’m not planning to write a sequel, maybe some shorts/chapters related to the story, but no full sequel—but never say never!
Tips wise… I tend to write out a chapter by chapter point form of the plot, then fill it in. If I’m honest, story tends to flow BUT I do edits on edits on edits. So I always do a word vomit, then over the following months edit and par the draft down until I’m happy with it. It’s really just practice; my first story went through multiple unpublished and multiple published drafts and is something I’m still thinking of editing again to make myself happy (but that’s a lot of work lol). But the more edits, the happier you’ll be with the final product AND editing is great practice. Sometimes you can go word blind, so it’s good to take a break from editing, but eventually it’ll all come together. So in short, just practicing and learning.
Also always keep in mind what your character is doing/saying. It can be easy to write without intention (I’m absolutely guilty of this) so sometimes you have to cut or change something you like because it doesn’t actually have relevance (or make sense) to the plot.
As for the banter, when I get into a groove, it tends to just flow sometimes I keep it, some times I review and change it, just depends on how it comes out…
As for expressing what you see in your head—write it all out, make multiple explanations, then take a break and come back. Rewrite it with more clarity, and do that again, and again until it makes sense. Sometimes I read back on things (especially fight scenes) and go “wtf is going on?” And then I realize I need to re-write it cause whatever I was seeing mentally wasn’t making sense on paper. But that’s the way it goes.
