18.26: Broadening Your Writing Wheelhouse: Video Game Dialogue, RPG Adventures, & More
Writing Excuses
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How to Write a Novel or Short Story
The skill set that you need for this, if you're writing novels or short stories already, is being able to say what you want to say and have the reader get what you wanted to say out of it. If you can do that consistently in your prose, and consistently and deliberately, then you've already got the skill to begin translating that into other things that you write. You already have figured out how words worked. There's a whole bunch of other things you're going to have to learn about how to put the words on the page,. And which ones go in brackets, and which ones goes in italics, and so on and so forth. But that skill, saying what you
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