That first one makes a good point about all the different rules and bit of advice to follow and how that's overwhelming. The Writing Excuses podcast did an episode on that too not long ago. Personally, I've stopped even trying to think about that stuff too much while writing a first draft.
It's hard to work on too many rules and techniques at once, even in the editing. I can work on a couple in any given story, get them figured out (I hope) and assimilate what I learn from them, and then move onto another story in which those things won't be a problem, but I'll have a new issue to tackle that I've only just noticed I'm doing wrong, or have only just learned from a book ir article.
It's no good trying to apply all the rules to one story! You'll end up working on it for twenty years and it will end up either perfect, or overwritten and awful, but either way you'll probably hate the sight of it and wish you'd never started it!
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Date: 2009-06-30 11:59 am (UTC)It's hard to work on too many rules and techniques at once, even in the editing. I can work on a couple in any given story, get them figured out (I hope) and assimilate what I learn from them, and then move onto another story in which those things won't be a problem, but I'll have a new issue to tackle that I've only just noticed I'm doing wrong, or have only just learned from a book ir article.
It's no good trying to apply all the rules to one story! You'll end up working on it for twenty years and it will end up either perfect, or overwritten and awful, but either way you'll probably hate the sight of it and wish you'd never started it!