C.B. Lee's Blog, page 127
August 7, 2015
August 6, 2015
Emotional reactions
Every scene should include references to how your characters feel. The most exciting fight can seem bland without the anger and primal glee of the protagonist finally getting revenge. A winning goal without a sense of triumph is just a sphere hitting a net. The bigger the event, the more and bigger the emotions.
At the same time, however, you should avoid having characters spend paragraph after paragraph describing every nuance of their exact feelings. The goal is to get t...
"If you provide enough convincing information, your readers will accept the reality of your..."
- Jerome Stern, Writing Shapely Fiction (via the-right-writing)
August 3, 2015
Coming in December: Bitter Springs, by Laura Stone
Coming December 3rd from Laura Stone, author of The Bones of You:
In 1870s Texas, Renaldo Valle Santos, the youngest son of a large and traditional family, has been sent to train with Henry “Hank” Burnett, a freed slave and talented mesteñero—or horse-catcher—so he may continue the family horse trade. Bitter Springs is a sweeping epic that takes themes from traditional Mexican literature and Old Westerns to tell the story of a man coming into his own and realizing his destiny...
August 2, 2015
DEAR RESEARCHERS OF TUMBLR
You know what’s awesome? Research. You know what’s not awesome? Not being able to get access to research because it’s stuck behind a paywall and you don’t belong to an institution/your institution doesn’t subscribe to that particular journal.
FEAR NOT.
Here is a list of free, open access materials on a variety of subjects. Feel free to add if you like!
GO FORTH AND LEARN SHIT, MY FRIENDS.
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Cookies, tea, meddling friends and unlikely opposites attracting might just be the exactly right recipe for love in Definitely, Maybe, Yours as expat English baker Craig finds his quiet life upended by an encounter with prickly, brokenhearted Alex at his favorite local Seattle pub…
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August 1, 2015
How not to foreshadow
Maybe your characters are in trouble near the end of your story and you need to go back and make sure the way they get out of it is properly hinted at. Maybe there’s a perfect solution to the plot, but it introduces a large new element that you need to add in.
Don’t just say “something important will happen” or “Amy’s powers will do something huge.” That’s so nonspecific that it hardly counts as foreshadowing. Of course important things will happen. Important things happen...
