Verduis

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CroZ

read.
keep it simple.

Verduis

I do read, a lot, but the majority of what I read is in the field of business, economics, philosophy, and psychology. Not much imagery in there...

Any other ways besides the simple reading?

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Rob

Try doing some daily exercises to improve your creativity. Write for a few minutes each day about ordinary household objects, or about ordinary events that have happened during your day. Develop an eye for detail, and look at things afresh as though you've never seen them before. Try to find the most telling details, those that best capture something, rather than long lists of physical characteristics.

Cheers,
Rob

Truth-Teller

Read fiction.

lin

No need for that. Just read stuff that is like the stuff you want to write. This seems to follow rather naturally.

HarryG

Don´t worry, you´re not alone. When writing your story, you realise that along with the action, some things need to be described in detail, and sometimes it´s irritating, it seems to stop the flow.


The balance is a personal choice, so don´t force yourself to follow others, if it makes you uncomfortable. On the other hand, appreciative reading will improve your writing, just be selective, only read what you like. You can´t read all of it anyway, there´s too much of it.

Rob

Reading alone is not enough. While it may help in a small, limited way, you have to develop the mental skills to do this for yourself, and to do so to the point where it becomes second nature, and you do that by writing, not reading.

Cheers,
Rob

Krim

First, you quest to the Land of Metaphor; there you acquire the Penblade. Next, thusly, you saddle your horse IcePyre and ride into the dubious Grassy Plains of Similie. There you may find the Well of Symbolism, and drink from it; that is how you gain the knowledge you seek.

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Truth-Teller

I have yet to see someone use proper simile, metaphor, or symbolism on these boards.

As a matter of fact, I have never seen anyone use such device.

Verduis

You'll see me use them corretly.

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Storm Eagle

do what i do- find every single word that can help describe the setting or what is happening. This only works at the beginning, mind you, but it is a good tip nonetheless. After the beginning, you can expand more on the characters, and what is happening around them that is changing rather than trying to paint that pristine picture within the readers' mind in order to get your point across that this is where the majority of the story shall be taking place, or at least for this one scene.

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Work in Progress...The Quill...I'll be sure to post it once finished rereading it for the seventh time and revising.

lin

This form of peculiar blindness explains a LOT. I said like an angry troll, thunder from the mountains, a fleshy train pulling into your mother. I mean into a tunnel.

Verduis

Calm down lin, you needn't retaliate.

Next question: Who, on these forms, works should I read to better my description also?

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Krim

Chris Miller has some pretty great prose. J.R. MacLean's poetry has some very nice metaphors and imagery, as well. Besides them, I don't read much. Gohn is good, and so is eggo. I tend to keep to the fiction forums, and almost everything is cliche and, simply, mediocre. Dark Clad by GunslingerRequiem is one of the exceptions.

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"A terrible energy and strength began to grow in him. It grabbed his emotions and forged them into a solid bar of anger with one word stamped on it: revenge." - Eragon by Christopher Paolini, an international bestseller