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Writing is such a broad task that one must finish it up. Even though there are people who think that writing is just an ordinary task where youll just have to write and write, but at some point, it requires further analysis and strategy. Most writers agree about it. Writing requires a unison between your feelings [...]
I want to write more about style, just continuing from the last article and with next suggestion.
Suggestion 7: economy of style. Think back to the old man on the barge from an earlier blog: “On a sleepy, sunny afternoon I was sitting on the banks of a canal, when a barge came chugging gently towards me.” You can see it in front of you. But if I were to ask you, what colour was the barge, you would probably stop and think, “Well, I don’t know! Does it matter?”
Writing gives the immediacy of real experience - but is able to do so in just a few words, without irrelevant detail. You can see the trees shimmer in a Monet landscape – but a photograph can be flat and dull, because the camera does not pick out the essentials as the painter compels the eye to do. In the same way, when your mind is fed only the essentials, you achieve a heightened sense of reality.
Very little is needed to make you feel that “I am there“. The reality which you have created as a writer is different for every reader, but everyone gets excited and interested. Economy of style helps create the excitement, the “you are there”. Continue reading A Writer Offers More Ideas About How To Write Fiction
In the last article, I had launched into the question of style and I want to continue on that line, picking up from where we left off at suggestion 3.
Suggestion 4: Writers often use a special style – rather than just special words – in order to create an atmosphere. The feeling of oppressive authority for example in the very opening paragraph of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens:
“Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it would be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born… the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this Chapter”.
Dickens means Oliver Twist was born in a workhouse. It takes time to get used to the style – but it’s worth it! Using a special style is also effective if you are quoting the writing of another person: Continue reading Additional Ideas About How To Write Fiction
A writer of fiction is simply a person who makes up stories. He or she is just a perfectly normal human being who has found out that they can put stories down on paper that make other people really interested, excited and amused.
Who becomes a writer? In the 20th and 21st centuries, practically everybody who has finally become a successful writer of fiction has started out in a different job, for example as a schoolteacher, a doctor or whatever. The reason is clear. You cannot “get a job” as a writer.
Let’s think about my genre, young adult stories – or some might call them “children’s stories.” Actually there is no such thing as a “children’s story”. Alice in Wonderland, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist (by Charles Dickens), Treasure Island (by Robert Louis Stevenson), Kim (by Kipling) and many, many more are for people between 5 and 122 years old.
So what I am writing about is not about how to write a book for children, or young adults, or whatever, but just about the nature of writing, as far as I understand it. My own books are intended as entertainment for people of all ages, at least for all people who have not forgotten what it is to be a child and to live in a world of adventure and excitement.
There is no recipe for writing of course. But here are some of my ideas and suggestions: Continue reading Some Ideas About How To Write Fiction
The most important thing about writing is structure. You cannot just rush into a piece of writing without some feeling for the form of what you are going to write. Of course it’s a great idea to zoom off a few inspired pages, but then you do have to stop and think. Where’s the start, what’s [...]
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