Category: Writing Description

Visceral Description: Show, Don't Tell

23.07.2011 11:00 Comments: 0 Categories: Fiction Elements Fiction Writing Writing Conflict Writing Description Writing Tips Tags: visceral description show don't tell melvin m. harter

We don't hook a reader with logical exposition, flat narration or argument. We must get to the part of the reader's life that is involuntary, automatic: the five senses and mood/emotion.

Description: What's it for?

23.07.2011 10:51 Comments: 0 Categories: Fiction Elements Fiction Writing Writing Craft Writing Description Writing Tips Tags: caro clarke description what's it for description

It is not simply to tell the reader about something. "She was five-two, medium build, redhead, green eyes."

Fiction Writing: Writing Description Quotations

23.07.2011 10:32 Comments: 0 Categories: Writing Quotations Writing Description Tags: writing description quotations description quotations

Writing Description Quotations

How To Write Vivid Descriptions and Get Closer To Your Readers

23.07.2011 10:26 Comments: 0 Categories: Fiction Elements Fiction Writing Writing Craft Writing Description Writing Tips Tags: how to write vivid descriptions shery ma belle arrieta

As a writer, it's your job to provide a vicarious experience to your reader. The only way you'll be able to do this successfully is by stimulating your reader's imagination.

How To Filter Description Through Your Characters

23.07.2011 10:17 Comments: 0 Categories: Fiction Elements Fiction Writing Writing Craft Writing Description Writing Tips Tags: description through characters marg mcalister

When we encounter a new setting or new experience, all our senses are on the alert. While we may not be conscious of it, we are using filtering that experience in our own unique ways.

Developing Sleuth, Villain, and Victim Characters

21.06.2011 11:56 Comments: 0 Categories: Fiction Elements Fiction Writing Writing Writing Craft Writing Description Writing Mystery Tags: character questions sleuth villain victim john morgan wilson

Mystery Writing: 40 Character Questions to Ask As You Develop Sleuth, Villain, and Victim

Narrative Structure and Infinite Creative Possibilities

07.06.2011 10:28 Comments: 0 Categories: Plotting Writing Plot Creative Writing Fiction Elements Fiction Writing Writing Description Writing Tips Screenwriting Tags: narrative structure narrative structure james bonnet

All great stories have the same underlying, universal structure - namely, there is a threat, either agent or perpetrator, that creates a problem that brings about a change...

Tips on Writing Description

19.05.2011 15:11 Comments: 0 Categories: Writing Tips Writing Description Writing Writing Craft Tags: writing tips writing description

Keep it brief. No one wants pages and pages of description anymore. It's hard to read a Dickens novel these days, as we are now much more interested in reading "what happens."

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