I'm hangin' on a moment of truth
Oct. 11th, 2011 11:23 amSometimes I wonder: what would my writing be like if I'd never been a part of Rent-a-Gundam?
I wouldn't be as conscious of sentence structure, for sure. I probably wouldn't vary my sentences as much or constantly remind myself to put more than actions into the text, because the reader needs to know what the characters are feeling and because it's an easy way to vary your structure.
I probably wouldn't be as into the whole publishing/editing thing as I am now, having learned a lot of what I know on the editing side from Orange. I'd done some editing before that, yeah, but it was her who really had the standards in the group and kind of imposed them on the rest of us. (Not that we were unwilling. We were just lazy.)
It's very likely that I wouldn't analyze writing the way I do now, looking for the things that make it awesome or boring. And ways to make a paragraph intentionally monotonous or intentionally anything else.
I wouldn't have quite so much storytelling experience under my belt.
And the most important thing I learned from RAG, I think, is how to produce. How to buckle down and just write. And write. And write a little bit more.
I wouldn't be as good of a writer without RAG. I'm not sure how much worse I'd be for sure (all of that RP with Lucy did a lot to improve my writing before RAG ever happened) because I was a decent writer before, but I think without RAG I'd never have really paid attention to writing the way I did when I was neck-deep in writing during every bit of free time.
I'm really thankful for RAG. For Orange and Typo and Veda, and for all the RAG fans. For![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tensergorn.
My life would really not be the same if I'd never found that prompt, I think.
I wouldn't be as conscious of sentence structure, for sure. I probably wouldn't vary my sentences as much or constantly remind myself to put more than actions into the text, because the reader needs to know what the characters are feeling and because it's an easy way to vary your structure.
I probably wouldn't be as into the whole publishing/editing thing as I am now, having learned a lot of what I know on the editing side from Orange. I'd done some editing before that, yeah, but it was her who really had the standards in the group and kind of imposed them on the rest of us. (Not that we were unwilling. We were just lazy.)
It's very likely that I wouldn't analyze writing the way I do now, looking for the things that make it awesome or boring. And ways to make a paragraph intentionally monotonous or intentionally anything else.
I wouldn't have quite so much storytelling experience under my belt.
And the most important thing I learned from RAG, I think, is how to produce. How to buckle down and just write. And write. And write a little bit more.
I wouldn't be as good of a writer without RAG. I'm not sure how much worse I'd be for sure (all of that RP with Lucy did a lot to improve my writing before RAG ever happened) because I was a decent writer before, but I think without RAG I'd never have really paid attention to writing the way I did when I was neck-deep in writing during every bit of free time.
I'm really thankful for RAG. For Orange and Typo and Veda, and for all the RAG fans. For
tensergorn. My life would really not be the same if I'd never found that prompt, I think.
