Living a Creative Life with Hannah Deurloo, Author
When it comes to the details of a story we can tend to sink in the quagmire of description. It can downright Tolkien for some folks. Others of us can see it in our head but it's missing in action on the page. The rule of THREE for details: Details must be concrete. Be specific.… Continue reading The Delight is in the Details
Somehow ancient sculptors are able to translate a person's face, expression, life, into each piece of marble. Yet, somehow, when we write we limit ourselves to eyes, hair and height. A person is so much more. Real people have a soul and getting that onto your pages and into your characters is one of the… Continue reading Capturing Ancient Faces: Character Desctiptions for Writers
Goldilocks takes so much crap for wanting to be “just right.” The perfectly warm oatmeal. The wonderfully spacious bed. Sure she’s breaking and entering into the Bear’s home, but she’s looking for perfection. And isn’t that what every writer is aiming for? We want enough detail to immerse the reader but not too much we… Continue reading Goldilocks Gets It Just Write
Description should be like tasty nuggets of information readers cherry pick out of the pages before them. Not a nutritional paragraph of data they must swallow. This post is all about revising your words to get the more ‘show’ and less ‘tell’ in your character descriptions. For Secondary Characters: Too much description gets boring. The classic… Continue reading ‘Showing’ Character Description
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