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Interview at Lit Up Reviews!
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by the lovely ladies over at Lit Up Reviews. Read the excerpt below and then head over to Lit Up Reviews for the full interview!
As a flowery writer, I admire anyone who can condense something as complex as an extended story into a novella. How do you decide if an element is necessary or not and what is your criteria for cutting something out?
First, a lot of the cutting came down to word choice. I played around with writing screenplays before I started to write Mara, and it taught me a lot about making words and action stand on their own. In a screenplay, a writer has to make one small character detail speak volumes about who they are as a person. I took that experience with me when I started working on my novella. So, in writing Mara, my goal was for characters’ actions and dialogue to communicate their motivations and intents. Also, I’m a big believer in word economy. For example, if a strong verb can say what you mean, don’t waste a string of adjectives or adverbs. Let each word have its individual power.
Read the rest over at Lit Up Reviews!
As a flowery writer, I admire anyone who can condense something as complex as an extended story into a novella. How do you decide if an element is necessary or not and what is your criteria for cutting something out?
First, a lot of the cutting came down to word choice. I played around with writing screenplays before I started to write Mara, and it taught me a lot about making words and action stand on their own. In a screenplay, a writer has to make one small character detail speak volumes about who they are as a person. I took that experience with me when I started working on my novella. So, in writing Mara, my goal was for characters’ actions and dialogue to communicate their motivations and intents. Also, I’m a big believer in word economy. For example, if a strong verb can say what you mean, don’t waste a string of adjectives or adverbs. Let each word have its individual power.
Read the rest over at Lit Up Reviews!
