Type of words, style of writing for a writer.
By Autumnne
@Autumnne (59)
Romania
August 8, 2009 7:02am CST
When in writing you may find yourself atracted to various domains of work and reigns of science. Depending on your style and genre of storie: action-adventure, crime, detective, fantasy, horror, mystery, romance, scrience fiction, western, literary fiction.
At a young age especially, there are a lot of small details that you don't know, but you would like to use for your story. When comfronted with scrience fiction, you don't know a lot of things, mainly because you should have knowledge in domains like fizics, chemistry, science. Romance is all about what you feel or what some should feel or what you want them to feel. Practically it's your world and you do everything you want with it, but the price of not knowing the real world, you may find yours to be, rather plain.
Did you ever had the urge or curiousity of using very long words, say like, the 45 letter word Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, the longest English word that appears in a major dictionary. Alright maybe not that one, but in your own language.
The point to all this is: Do you like to write sophisticated words in your stories and what? Do you prefer a specific type of story genre and do you do research in order to write it?
2 responses
@jlamela (4898)
• Philippines
18 Aug 09
Well, personally, I choose a topic and subject which I am comfortable and has a lot to say. My favorite topic is always be European monarchy, so I am concentrating on it and did a lot of research. It is very tiring and painfully stressing but because I love it, I don't mind the stress and the tiredness. It's all worth it.
@raineyes (554)
• United States
8 Aug 09
Well, what we write can really only be based on our experiences. I mean, of course, fictional things didn't happen to us, but the way our characters act, feel and think has a lot to do with the way we've acted, felt or thought.
As for the words I use, I like to use the words that fit. If it's a serious, intelligent piece, then, of course, I'll use larger, more descriptive words. But, for instance, if it's told from a first person point of view from a character who isn't that sophisticated, it wouldn't make sense to use those kinds of words.
I prefer fiction and fantasy, and sometimes it's necessary to do research so that it seems believeable. If I want to write about, say, a dragon, well then, I need to look up what myths and legends surround dragons.
