Happy New Year everyone!
It’s the first IWSG of 2017. IWSG aka Insecure Writers
Support Group is a fabulous online group of writers posting on the first
Wednesday of every month. In the IWSG posts, we writers talk about all our
writing related worries, anxieties, fears and insecurities. This group is like
a discussion forum where other writers who share similar worries help us out
with their advice and tips. Check out the IWSG website for amazing writing tips. Read the other IWSG posts here.
When we talk of IWSG, how can we forget Ninja Captain Alex J Cavanaugh (author
of the Amazon Bestsellers: CassaStar, CassaStorm, CassaFire and Dragon of the
Stars) for starting this awesome group. On the first Wednesday, when you say a
blur in the sky, it’s just our blogging superstar with his guitar, trying to
visit as many blogs as he can, all over the world.
The IWSG question
of this month is ‘What writing rule you wish you had never heard?
Infact, I want to say that I wish I had never
heard of any writing rule whatsoever to start with. Stories don’t follow a set
template, that this incident should happen by the fifth chapter, this one by
the ninth and this one by the fifteenth. All these rules simply stress out a
writer who writes in an unconventional way. They start thinking they are doing
it all wrong. Or they worry that they aren’t following the set method.
I always get concerned about the rising
stakes bit. Sometimes it’s not possible to increase the stakes immediately. And
we can’t always have the threat of death hanging over our characters. I
personally feeling writing is all about instinct and pacing and ofcourse
character development.
I’m looking forward to reading all your
posts to see which writing rule you all wish you had never heard.
