Proofreading. Redrafting.

 My decision for my book was to make a series of horror stories. However, when I started writing the first story, I got so carried away that I realized I could make a whole book based on that story. Although I had no previous experience in writing, I started my lyrics in class. Below you can see what it looked like initially. 




After analyzing the story I started, I realized I’d made a big mistake. I started writing right out of my head, without thinking about how I would develop my story. However, I made research on the structure of the text, and I realized I had to write a plan. Below you can see the plan I made and now I am following it. 

  1. Flashback 
  2. The main character and his description
  3. Friendship and mental connection with a friend
  4. Flashback 
  5. Conflict with a friend. Fight
  6. Outside assistance
  7. Forest familiarity 
  8. Physical forest testing 
  9. Emotional bonding
  10. Mental forest test 
  11. Revealing the truth
  12. The internal conflict of the protagonist
  13. Resisting 
  14. Realization of the truth. Acceptance
  15. Losing/Winning
Also, I decided to divide the text into chapters so that the reader would be easier to read and I think to write the dates and locations depending on the changes, to facilitate the reader’s reading. In the original version, I did not give much of the usual moments of life and more made the atmosphere of growing anxiety. However, having spoken to my first readers, I have heard very valuable advice. To make my book better and more interesting, I decided to dilute the beginning not only with disturbing moments but also with normal situations from life, which would help deepen the reader into his book and make it more lively and rich. 

In addition to all revisions, I added dialogs that were not in the original version. So I focused on the development of the characters, showing their behavior toward others, as well as reactions to different problems. 



That's how my writing looks now. I changed the structure of the text and started my work at the action point, which, I think, can affect readers in a positive way, because they want to read what happened next. The proofreading was very useful because without it I could not have corrected all the mistakes I made at the beginning. 


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