I'm an inspiring author who for a long time has been seeking other new authors out in order to collaborate with. So far i haven't been able to find any yet. Ive joined some discord servers from Reddit that that looked helpful but none seemed to be at the level that i was looking for. If anybody out there is willing to collaborate i would be more than happy to try to set up a group.
Grammar and plotting is my biggest problem. I'm still working on my vocabulary but since being out of high school for nearly a year after i graduated, i feel that some of my vocab skills has degraded. With plotting, i just keep getting stuck in some locations my brain refuses to move forward.
Wildbird I don’t have the time for a writer’s group/collab (tho I like the idea) but I can at least offer some tips maybe.
For grammar, I can only say study it online, if you get someone to edit a chapter, see what they changed, or use grammarly as I heard it’s good.
For vocabulary, read books and search up unknown words, or while writing, use a theasaurus and look up synoymns and what they mean (since not all ‘synoymns’ are pefectly interchangeable or suitable). Also, some online dictionaries have a word of they day and they can be pretty interesting.
I'm the same to with time. I'll add with my experience for storylining.
Outlining a storyline from start to end and research the aspect you want to put in can help with the writing, especially for character driven stories. You need an outline.
A method for simple outlining. Dot point from start to end the story chapters at a high level then ask questions on those points and formulate answers. The answers is what you write to.
Then look over outline for consistency among the chapters (they should answer to questions asked at the story summary) and check for progression and reading flow. Use chapter goals if you have to for fast pace chapters that build up to a climax.
Example:
Story summary of story I want to write.
What is the ultimate goal of story?
What is the challenge to stop that goal?
What removes the challenge to reach the goal?
What is sacrificed?
What is gained?
Ch1- Open story with MC being chased by zombies.
Why zombies?
Why chasing MC?
Where?
What's the ultimate goal MC must achieve in this chapter?
Or what is the goal of this chapter?
Chp2- MC happens upon survivers in a shop.
Who's there?
Why there?
Are any key characters?
What is the goal of this chapter?
Hope that helps.
Wildbird maybe we can collab I've no issues with that. DM me if interested we can talk it out.
Veronica8 Thank you so much for sharing your precious knowledge... No matter this collab works or not but as a writer, I have learnt a good lesson. :)
Some advice for you when you plan your story. It's a tip I learned from an actual professional writer when I was at school.
Who the character is, what they're like and if you want they you could talk about their background -> (Next) Talk about what they want to achieve, their goal ->(Next) Then what's there to stop the character from achieving their goal, obstacle? Conflict? ->(Next) What will the character do to achieve it or what will happen to the character, the change and actions.
Just a little planning structure I learnt from a author, this one's more basic and I bet the author would've had something more amazing than this.
The Webnovel PH group is kind of like that. Everyone over there is wonderful :)
If this does happen, add me in :)
I'll be creating a discord sometime in the near future (2 or 3) days at most. To all who want to collab.
Thank you to all who replied and gave advice.
GrandpaWrath2 thank you for your advice. I'm learning good tips everyday thanks to people like you and Veronica8... I'm grateful to those who share their hard learnt wisdom.
Hi please add me in as well.
