Katherine Frances's Blog, page 219
June 23, 2016
"Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no..."
- Linda Yezak (via writingquotes)
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Using the appropriate vocabulary in your novel
It is very important that the language in your novel reflects the time and place in which the story is set.
For example, my story is set in Italy. My characters would never “ride shotgun”, a term coined in US in the early 1900s referring to riding alongside the driver with a shotgun to gun bandits.
Do your research! A free tool that I found to be very useful is Ngram Viewer.
You can type any word and see when it started appearing in books. For example…one of my characters was going to say “gazillion” (I write YA) in 1994. Was “gazillion” used back then?
And the answer is…YES! It started trending in 1988 and was quite popular in 1994.
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I dare you to write about imprisonment
Be creative! Is the imprisonment literal and physical or is it figurative and imprisonment by the mind, circumstance, or something else? How does the character escape? If you’re writing about yourself, how did you escape? Maybe you or your character haven’t escaped yet, but you/they have plans.
Think outside the box!
If you’re brave enough to post, don’t forget to tag I dare you to write and indicate whether or not concrit is welcome.
Let Me Go
Dialogue Prompt!
A: “I apologize for my friend. He can be quite brash.”
B: “D-does this mean you’re going to let me go?”
