Post by Radrook Admin on Oct 29, 2021 5:22:08 GMT -5
Plot Flaws to Avoid
This video focuses on some very good points concerning the plot of a story, that need to be avoided if one wants to succeed as a writer. Unfortunately, all the errors mentioned in the video are the very basic mistakes which 99% of the authors posting their stories on the Story Star forum constantly make. Stories in which an author goes off on different tangents interrupting the flow. Stories that have no drama because they lack conflict and are told in a tongue in cheek way that assures the reader that things are not serious at all. Stories in which names are used without any physical descriptions. Stories that tell but don't show. Stories shot to hell with very basic and easily-avoidable grammatical errors, such as lack of capitalization, run-on sentences, tense contradictions, and serious misspellings.
Yet, strangely, such stories, blatantly riddled with these mistakes, are regularly receiving the Category Good, Category Great and category Awesome ratings at the Story Star forum. In other words, writers are being constantly encouraged to continue down the horrendously wrong road which will guaranty failure.
Needless to say, such an irresponsible, self-service policy is very detrimental to any aspiring writer wishing to improve his writing skills via receiving helpful advice, since all he will manage to do at Story Star, is to practice his mistakes while being assured that he is doing just fine or excellent.
To make matters worse, many writers who post stories at Story Star, are young people, ranging from adolescents to teens, to those in their early twenties. These are crucial years during which a writer is developing habits and definitely does not need to have any habits detrimental to his writing being praised so that they become a deeply ingrained staple of his methodology.
Later in life, if and when the writer ever finally realizes that what he has been previously writing was drivel, he will then wonder why he was regularly and enthusiastically receiving Awesome ratings at Story Star for making such a horrendous mess, and will definitely not appreciate having been led astray in that way
Yet, strangely, such stories, blatantly riddled with these mistakes, are regularly receiving the Category Good, Category Great and category Awesome ratings at the Story Star forum. In other words, writers are being constantly encouraged to continue down the horrendously wrong road which will guaranty failure.
Needless to say, such an irresponsible, self-service policy is very detrimental to any aspiring writer wishing to improve his writing skills via receiving helpful advice, since all he will manage to do at Story Star, is to practice his mistakes while being assured that he is doing just fine or excellent.
To make matters worse, many writers who post stories at Story Star, are young people, ranging from adolescents to teens, to those in their early twenties. These are crucial years during which a writer is developing habits and definitely does not need to have any habits detrimental to his writing being praised so that they become a deeply ingrained staple of his methodology.
Later in life, if and when the writer ever finally realizes that what he has been previously writing was drivel, he will then wonder why he was regularly and enthusiastically receiving Awesome ratings at Story Star for making such a horrendous mess, and will definitely not appreciate having been led astray in that way