Super Important Writing Tip For When You Think Your Story Is a Little Boring
Write Better Now - Super Quick Writing Tips
This podcast we super quickly talk about something you can do when it feels like your novel got a little boring.
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A lot of the time, we might think as we read our own work, “Wow. This story just got super boring.”
Then we have to figure out why.
Sometimes that might be because it’s a big block of text that describes the setting of a gerbil page for 5,000 words.
Sometimes that might be because it’s dialogue that’s going back and forth with no grounding elements like where they are, what their bodies are doing or no subtext.
Sometimes that might be because the text reads like stage directions. Think, “I raised my arm. I scratched my head. I walked toward the counter.”
But a lot of time your story is boring right there because there’s no yearning going on for the main character or there are no connections for the reader to connect to.
So, here’s the tip:
If there is no yearning inside your main character in that scene or boring place, no obstacle to that yearning, nothing to ground the reader in both the setting and the character, then you might want to slow your writer roll and put it in there.
Allow yourself to slow down and add some angst.
Readers want to live and experience through your characters, groan with them, skip with them, fight the evil gerbil monster with them. They can’t do that if they don’t emotionally connect with them and when there’s no connection? That’s when the story gets boring.
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