100 Exquisite Adjectives. By Mark Nichol Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it’s quality, not quantity, that is the issue. Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words. Here’s a list of adjectives: Subscribe to Receive our Articles and Exercises via Email You will improve your English in only 5 minutes per day, guaranteed! 21 Responses to “100 Exquisite Adjectives” Rebecca Fantastic list! SUBTEXT: A DEFINITION AND EXPLORATION | Writing Subtext: What Lies Beneath | Gotham Writers.
By Linda Seger In drama, more than any other art form, people don’t say what they mean. It isn’t always a lie. It isn’t always fudging or denying the truth. Sometimes characters think they’re telling the truth. Sometimes they don’t know the truth. Sometimes they don’t feel comfortable expressing the truth. In great drama, there are the words themselves and the truth beneath the words.
Text is the words and gestures that we see. But if the question were asked of a cute blonde tart and she answered with a wink, “Why do you want to go to Chicago when there’s so much fun to be had here!?” We encounter subtext all the time in daily life. In (1946, by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman), most of the female characters flirt with Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart).
If you can use me again sometime, call this number. Day and night? Night’s better. Clearly she isn’t giving him her card for another taxi ride. Subtext is the true meaning simmering underneath the words and actions. Words I Never Want to See in Your Novel. Please. Plot Scenario Generator. Fiction Writing Tips - Short Story and Novel Writing Tips.
Defeat the First Draft Blues: Part 4 By Melissa Jones This is Part 4 of a series on revising the first draft of a novel. Read Part 1 to find out why it's important to take a break from your first draft before you revise it. Read Part 2 to discover why a messy first draft is a good thing. Step 4: Find your Vision "Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first a strategic vision. " -- John Naisbitt, American writer and thinker If you've followed steps 1-3 of the WEbook Guide to Revising a Novel, you should have a good handle on your book as it exists today -- warts and all. In other words, they call it revision for a reason. There is no simple formula for discovering the greatest potential inherent in your first draft. Below, you will find eight questions that will guide you towards your greatest vision. Forget what you think you know.
So many possibilites, so few lifetimes. Keep it positive. Grab a pen. Document your vision. Whose story is it? Defeat the First Draft Blues: Part 3. 8 Unstoppable Rules For Writing Killer Short Stories. Absolute Write | Write hard. Write true. And write on. Tension. Hook Your Readers With Tension By Laura Backes, Write4Kids.com Tension. Without it, life would be—let's face it—boring. So would fiction. Tension works with conflict to raise the emotional level of the text to a boiling point. It forces the reader to become invested in the story. "Tension" is a loaded word, and can be misleading. Tension is what hooks readers of any age and keeps them turning the pages.
. * The ticking clock. . * Dialogue. . * Pacing. . * Sentence structure. Each story requires a different kind of tension. Laura Backes is the author of Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read from Prima/Random House. Copyright © 2002, Children's Book Insider, LLC. Fifty (50!) Tools Which Can Help You in Writing. Language is a virus.com. Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers.
Unsorted [/writers] James Patrick Kelly - Murder Your Darlings - "When time comes to make that final revision, however, you must harden your heart, sharpen the ax and murder your darlings. " Greda Vaso - Determining the Readability of a Book - includes formulas for Gunning's Fog Index, Flesch Formula, Powers Sumner Kearl L. Kip Wheeler - Literary Terms and Definitions L. Kip Wheeler - Comp - Lit - Poetry - Links - more Style - Grammar - Errors in English [/writers]American Heritage - Book of English Usage - free download Band-Aid AP StylebookPaul Brians - Common Errors in EnglishCJ Cherryh - Writerisms and other Sins The Chicago Manual of Style FAQ Gary N. Curtis - The Fallacy Files - Logical fallacies and bad arguments Prof.
Charles Darling [RIP] - Guide to Grammar and Writing The Economist (UK) - Style Guide John Eshleman - Logical Fallacies H.W. Compelling Short. 10 "Easy" Guidelines to Writing the Compelling Short Story By Kate Robinson Writers are fortunate there are no word police and that we can pursue the craft in the privacy of our own heads! We can also take comfort in the knowledge that further revision can always see us through to a polished product. There is nothing written that can't be improved by applying the concepts below: 1.
Good writers can make any subject interesting through the use of style. It's not what you say, it's how you say it. 2. 3. 4. Tension that moves the story along. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. It helps to be aware of all the bits and pieces of language and form that comprise the short story. It is a little scary that there are so many different factors that must be skillfully interwoven within a piece of writing in order for it to be called "good. " The creative state of mind has been thoroughly analyzed to the point that whole books are dedicated to concretely describing how to achieve that state at will. The 10 Types of Writers' Block (and How to Overcome Them) How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method. Ten brutally brutal writing commandments – SLOTHROP.
I used to have these ten writing commandments that I typed up once for some discussion, and recently I found the file in an external USB drive. Here, have them, and leave a comment if you happen to disagree, etc. (There’s also a sister-post by Caleb Ross, called Nobody Gives a **** That You Wrote Something) 1. Temper cruelty with moral uprightness. Be cruel to the world, but kind to your characters. Be kind to your readers, but cruel to your characters. Be cruel to your readers, but have the world’s best interests at heart. Take some responsibility for the horror of being a human being. 2. Actually, don’t break this rule, just be subtle in how you follow it. 3. The following would be some places to start: If you thought Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian was nihilistic to excess, try to create a response to that nihilism without mentioning cowboys or bloodshed, but also without ever forgetting that you’re responding to Blood Meridian. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Ideas are not enough. 10. Like this:
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