To the other fiction writers here - 3am Epiphany!

[gturner]

^To quote David and Maddie, "WE HATE IAMBIC PENTAMETER!"

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It's easy! You just have to count on your knuckles.

D'anna.
Colonel Tigh, a rumor thick as dewy fog
Doth foretell of a Cylon armada
Near on the fleet for imminent attack.
What say you to the rightness of this tale?
Be it fair or foul? Are we yet prepared?
Tigh.
I speak not to disprove what you now say,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
A Cylon attack stands as imminent
Twenty-four hours of every bone weary day,
So it is that our tired fleet never sleeps.
So it is that our DRADIS ever sweeps,
Our duty an ever vigilant task.
Now is no different than the day before
Or the day ahead, except now the wait
Likely bears war fruit 'stead of sterile seeds.
The Cylons have made first move, yet we stay
Focused on threats of continual dread,
The death and destruction that dog our heels;

 

[Australis]

I used to have good ideas at midnight. Now they're okay ideas at midnight... but when I wake up, stll half asleep, and process the idea again, it's soooo much better. Other little things to enrich the central concepts pop up. There's a wrtiting competition I'm going to enter for a specific type of story, and the world-building is strenuous but a lot of fun.

THere's lots of good books and good websites that have lots of advice. If you get stuck, don't be adraid to look.

 

[DBR]

I heard a terrific quote once, but I forget what it was and who said it. The gist of it, however, was "good writing is painful."

It's true. Too painful, IMO.

 

[Australis]

The quote I had like that was good toto - "Writing is easy. You just have to stare at a blank screen until drops of blood form on your forehead."