Fiction Factor Newsletter

[ostarella]

Couple more good articles from Fiction Factor Newsletter

http://www.fictionfactor.com

Storytelling by Lee Masterson

http://www.fictionfactor.com/articles/story-telling.html

Adding Character Depth Through Perception by Lee Masterson

http://www.fictionfactor.com/articles/perception.html

Enjoy!

Comments

[beckyblack]

That first one makes a good point about all the different rules and bit of advice to follow and how that's overwhelming. The Writing Excuses podcast did an episode on that too not long ago. Personally, I've stopped even trying to think about that stuff too much while writing a first draft.

It's hard to work on too many rules and techniques at once, even in the editing. I can work on a couple in any given story, get them figured out (I hope) and assimilate what I learn from them, and then move onto another story in which those things won't be a problem, but I'll have a new issue to tackle that I've only just noticed I'm doing wrong, or have only just learned from a book ir article.

It's no good trying to apply all the rules to one story! You'll end up working on it for twenty years and it will end up either perfect, or overwritten and awful, but either way you'll probably hate the sight of it and wish you'd never started it!

[beckyblack]

That second one I think I just read recently... not sure how I found my way to it! But it's a goodie and definitely worth re-reading. Recently I was writing about how a character who had just come home after a long time away looked thinner than normal, but I tried to put most of that into the perception and dialogue of the people greeting him and noticing that, and wanting to feed him up! Rather than just saying "He was thinner than when he left."

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

I read the story telling bit! Thank you. Very inspirational and motivational :D

oh just read the other one too... very useful. I must admit, the Mills and Boon books, are going on about the colour of their eyes, and descriptions a little... but I gloss over those. Like the other piece of advice said, read other authors and learn from them :-P

thanks for sharing!