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Visceral Description: Show, Don't Tell
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
The People Versus
Tough as a tire iron and proud as a parson in paradise, Jeff Sanders, Private Investigator, was good at his job, always cool and always composed, never rancorous or rattled on the witness stand Fit at 40, he was a wiz at bending the truth toward the side that hired him, but he never blatantly lied
The Character’s Character – 'Show, Don't Tell'
If readers can't identify with, care about, or somehow share the feelings of the characters, despite a perfect plot and poetic prose, the story is likely to bomb Readers must respond to the characters viscerally, with sympathy or antipathy, early on
How I Constructed Some Kind Of Angel
Authors are frequently asked how they conceive and create a story There may be almost as many ways as there are authors: outline; write ending and work up to it; precise factual experience or observation ("creative non-fiction;") whatever comes into your head; emotional idea; paper or audio notes; etc
Common Errors Writers Make Part 2: Kill A Good Story
From Rita Jamison's Freelance Writing Workshop; Adult Education, Los Altos, CA, 2005
Your plot's great Your theme is awesome
Common Errors Writers Make
PART 1: WRITER'S BLOCK
From Rita Jamison's Freelance Writing Class; Adult Education, Los Altos, CA, 2005
At one time or another we all experience "writer's block" We have ideas
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