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Story Lab: Week 11

This week for the story lab, I went to the Writers Write website to browse around at different themes for stories. This was an interesting website from the get go because the first two posts that caught my eye were about Harnessing Time Flow and a version of writer's block called Starter's block. I browsed through different stories, and one thing that I think really stood out about this website is that it covers more niche things within writing. We have the opportunity to see these larger scale things that will improve our writing, but the small scale things might be better.

Instead of trying to make more dynamic dialogue or more interesting characters, one thing that we might be omitting is the flow of our story in the background. It can be important to use different kinds of pacing or different settings to really expand the story organically instead of unnaturally honing in on one character in particular. Since I basically browsed through articles, I only immediately remember bits and pieces tied to certain articles, but the other thing that stood out were the letters from current writers to beginning ones.

It is commonly told to me that if I were to start a hobby or profession called A, I should Google the phrase "things I wish I knew when starting A" so that I can get more in-depth knowledge and hedge my experience better. Overall, I think this leads to preventing mistakes that others faced, and it ends up optimizing my own experience.

This was an interesting exercise because while it does not directly tell me how to write a story, it definitely gives me insight into the different elements at my disposal to write stories, and how to become a better writer overall. I look forward to implementing some of these ideas into future stories.

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