Blog Tour Round-up for Enemy and Outlaw
You may have noticed I've not been posting here much. There's a reason! I was posting all over other places. So here is a list:
Five Books Where the Dead Don't Stay That Way
Institutions As Villains - About the world-build of Enemy and Outlaw
Silent Waters: Narrative Music - a challenge from Hardboiled to relate a story told in lyrics; this story comes from Finnish myth, and the band, Amorphis, figures heavily in my playlists for writing On the Bones of Gods
Interview at The Qwillery about Enemy
Imagining the Real (and Knowing What You Write)
Interview at SFFWorld about Outlaw
And a kick-ass review of Enemy from To The Shelves
Five Books Where the Dead Don't Stay That Way
Institutions As Villains - About the world-build of Enemy and Outlaw
Silent Waters: Narrative Music - a challenge from Hardboiled to relate a story told in lyrics; this story comes from Finnish myth, and the band, Amorphis, figures heavily in my playlists for writing On the Bones of Gods
Interview at The Qwillery about Enemy
Imagining the Real (and Knowing What You Write)
Interview at SFFWorld about Outlaw
And a kick-ass review of Enemy from To The Shelves
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Hi Dave: Sometimes it helps to imagine yourself as the frame in a film. What do you need to your reader to notice? Do you want to start wide-angle, or close-up? Then forget being a film director... and pay as much attention to tastes, smells, and textures as you do sound and sight. The more specific the details, the clearer the description.
Thank you K. I guess I have been so involved with the characters getting from end to end and what happens directly to them that my focus is polarised only on them, but obviously as they transit through their landscape or pause for breath the world around them is constantly forgotten. Stepping into the characters shoes will give me a much better perspective of their world.
Thank you for your words of wisdom :).
Oh and by the way, I loved Enemy and am over a third of the way through Outlaw, now if only I could communicate with my cats the way Briel does with Snow (without the headaches) then life would be so much better for it :D.
Thanks again.
All good writers have this ability to create an inner visual world where the words seem to become images,
As an aspiring/struggling writer, I often find it difficult to add in the details such as: backgrounds, scenery, other non-named characters, passersby etc. do you have any tips that could help overcome these stumbling blocks? any advice would be appreciated, thanks.