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I must start using some of these suggestions! Thank you, E.J. Runyon for this lesson.

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Telling sentences begin like this:  I stand…  Sara looks around…  He waits with a…   We wish …   I sit here…Bob looks to the …

These are forms of you the writer telling the reader about the character. We can hear you saying these words. Your voice is at the forefront.

That may be fine for one line of narration. But to slip into scenes that show you  have to make a shift in your writing.  A writer’s voice needs to fade into the background. She needs to narrate her story from there.

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Dar49 Daily


Dar49 Daily. Yay! Here is today’s paper! I had to play with it a bit to get beyond only Grammar Girl or only Game of Thrones. I like both, but a page dedicated to one or the other is a little boring. Even so there are stories missing that I thought I had set up to grab. Oh, well. I’ll get it right someday! 🙂


Thank you, LindaGHill for the laugh. Had to reblog again. Good thing reblogs don’t fade like copies of copies! 😉


Creative Writing Tip: Read Outside Your Genre.

I found this to be true. I tend to get stuck in certain genres. My own writing tends to be sci-fi/fantasy and it is my favorite to read. Every now and then something comes along and breaks up my whole world. Take for instance my sudden Game of Thrones obsession. It is somehow very inspiring to my own writing. Yes, I know it is my genre. But I have been on a strong fem leads and writers of late. So this broke my own rules. Lately I read more non-fiction, like the book about blogging I just finished. Or autobiographies have started creeping in. I see how it affects my writing to get stuck in my reading diet. Creepy mysteries and thrillers have found their way into my reading and I find those add an edge to my writing.

What are your thoughts?

Dar49 Daily


Dar49 Daily. This is yesterday’s paper.

I only post it if you like Game of Thrones. I recently listened to the All Leather Must Be Boiled podcast about the season finale. If you haven’t listened to these podcasts you are missing a vital element of  understanding for GRRM, his books and the television series. These guys give intelligent and heartfelt commentaries that are personable without getting silly. They satisfy my inner Nerd. If you read my original reviews of the GoT  books on GoodReads you would see how appalled I was at the machismo  of Westeros. These guys, and my adultrens, have introduced me to the deeper meanings of Mr. Martin’s world and characters. Now on my second read-through of the series and umpteenth watching of HBOs presentation of same.

Somehow, Paper.li must have read my mind by pulling only ALMBB as my sources. Today, I have added more sources to see if I can get a more balanced (who me?) paper. The new paper should be out after 5 Pacific Time.

Dar49 Daily


Dar49 Daily. Wow, that was fast. And another small edition.


Paper or plastic – print and electronic books compared [infographic].

Kindle with text-to-speech is the only way for my old eyes. I was able to read 225 books last year because of this system. Before Kindle my reading habits had faded to the background of my life. I missed my dear friend. Books had been my food for so long. Now I am back to devouring four or five at a time!

 

What’s your preference?

The Scriptorium Daily


The Scriptorium Daily. Features a couple stories blogged or reblogged by yours truly.


Dar49 Daily. Is out. Somehow it ended up tiny so I didn’t delete any of the stories it put there. Guess I need to get over and adjust my news sources again.


I liked E.J. Runyon’s ideas here. Thought I’d share.

ejrunyon's avatarE.J. Runyon's Author Blog

You can begin your first draft like this:

Joseph stood on her front porch but didn’t knock. The wind as it was coming from the east, made his eyes squint.

She opened the door. Saw him there, and she nodded and smiled.

 In one way, it’s a nice way to start. You aren’t over using state-of-being verbs, like was or were, or the helpers words like as and had been, too much.

The verbs here are stood, knock, was, coming, made, squint, opened, saw, nodded, and smiled. But it is a lot of stage direction for the wind, Joseph and someone named she.

 ON second glance, you have to admit, these lines are mostly story facts. The ‘Where folks are’, the ‘What they did, movement wise’. There’s not a lot of storytelling here yet.

 

We aren’t given many suggestions about anyone’s emotions, or motivations, there’s…

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