Most useful sources for fiction so far: - Impro by Johnstone - The MICE model in Orson Scott Card book - Save the Cat (color by numbers Campbell) - Reading like a writer by Francine Prose - Archetypes for Writers by Jenifer van Bergen Damon Knight: creating short fiction
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Also bits of murder mystery. There's such a thing as consultant fiction but afaik I'm the only one who's gone down this particular genre-bending bunnytrail.
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One of my suspicions is that for my more ambitious drafts that I want to put more work into, the unblocking move will be finding the genre-busting tweak. Right now, the drafts are pretty much pure-paradigm sci-fi plots.
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In my first flirtation with fiction ~20y ago (which I've since deleted from online), the flow-inducing mashup was first-person regular fiction + cookbooks + lyric books. I had segments with literal recipes and song fragments in them. Again not great, but it flowed.
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Dunno about the rest of you, but for me flow is key. If the words don't flow at near the physical limit of typing speed and physical endurance, it's not working for me. Until I can unlock that flow rate, the writing lacks both quantity and quality of words. Minimum viable flow.
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Ground-truthing this thread... I've written probably a couple of million words of non-fiction, and maybe 50k words of fiction in my life (publicly published that is). I've never directly made money off fiction though. Art of gig doesn't count since it is a nonfiction trojan horse
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like pirsig without the woo?
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