It's a new year, readers, and things are looking up for this writer. I hope it's worked out for all of you as well. It's a cold winter where I live and with new books being churned out via the publishing houses, I decided it was time for a read of a new book. My first impression was that I needed a terminology to understand the lingo.
This may or may not be helpful advice, but if you're writing a novel and your critique group peers don't understand a word of what you're saying, try creating a terminology and had it out/email it to the members of your group. It not only saves time and lots of questions on the feedback, it serves as a reminder to you so you don't use the same abbreviation twice and have it mean two different things.
The easiest part of writing a terminology is creating the lingo/slang that will be the seen throughout the majority of your WOP (work in progress). the slang can be anything such as an insult one group of people say to another or a way for two lovers to communicate their affections without saying/revealing too much.
For the creation of a world, it's best to have a unique calendar for your planet with months all labelled and all days within that month tallied up. Hours and days in a week count as well.
These are only suggestions. Take them as you will. Just keep writing and having fun with your WOP.
This may or may not be helpful advice, but if you're writing a novel and your critique group peers don't understand a word of what you're saying, try creating a terminology and had it out/email it to the members of your group. It not only saves time and lots of questions on the feedback, it serves as a reminder to you so you don't use the same abbreviation twice and have it mean two different things.
The easiest part of writing a terminology is creating the lingo/slang that will be the seen throughout the majority of your WOP (work in progress). the slang can be anything such as an insult one group of people say to another or a way for two lovers to communicate their affections without saying/revealing too much.
For the creation of a world, it's best to have a unique calendar for your planet with months all labelled and all days within that month tallied up. Hours and days in a week count as well.
These are only suggestions. Take them as you will. Just keep writing and having fun with your WOP.
