Currently reading Outlining Your Novel alongside my other books. By the end of the year, hoping to be at a mastery level of competence with outlining and structuring. Kind of like a Jason bourne ultra-ninja jedi knight story intelligence. Learning the craft of writing has been an artful science and for my own apprehension I thought about making a proficiency test. Do you think that would be beneficial?

K.M. Weiland Jason Bourne as a Jedi--sounds pretty unstoppable to me. ;)

In all honesty, I'm not sure how a proficiency test for fiction writing would work. On the one hand, it sound intriguing. But I'd also be a little wary of boxing yourself into a particular "level" as a writer. Not only is that often a fast track to discouragement, it's also not necessarily accurate, since writing is subjective. After a certain point, it becomes hard to quantify proficiency. After all, we could hardly objectively rank masters such as Hemingway and Fitzgerald and definitively say one is better than the other.

flag