Before reviewing Ron Carlson, I would want to talk about myself a little because my experience is related to what I got from Carlson’s book:
I started writing stories when I was in fourth grade. The only reason I began writing was because I saw someone writing fan fictions on the web and I though it was cool. Sadly I kind of went into another direction where I created some original characters(OC) and let these OCs interact with the characters in the story and ended up became some sort of Mary Sue thing that I will never look at in my life again.(Mary Sue: Where you put a original character into some existed franchise and makes your character the greatest person in the world, everybody just loves you to death and you are flawless and so on.) It is not until high school when I thought ‘ok, this is stupid I need to do better’ and throw all my ideas into a melting pool and reconstruct them from beginning. After that my character are no longer all powerful, but has flaws and personalities. It was not until
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All of them have different settings as most of them are fan fictions from an existing universe. Never finished any of them until today though. Maybe because they are meant to be long fantasy novel rather than short stories. As that still in progress, I began to read Ron Carlson Writes a story. To be honest, at first glance I did not think too much about the inner,outer story that he mentioned. What I noticed was his ways of how to concentrate, which is a big problem for me. When he said that ‘stand up from the desk is to fail’ and never look up names when writing, I understand that because that happened to me multiple times during my writing process. I also agree on his argument that internet is the enemy of writers. I wish I can still write in paper but sadly I am starting to forget how to write in Chinese(Most of my stories are in Chinese).I have to write(or type) in computer, and computer means internet, and internet destroyed
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