Enliven Your Writing, Part 2

The Red Table--1916 Leon-de-Smet-1881-1966

Yesterday I wrote about books and manuscripts with wooden prose and a flat delivery.

Ways I thought a writer could jazz up the writing a bit were by changing the voice, revising the work, including vivid setting imagery, changing the sentence structure, and by supplying character movement.

Here are some other ways to enliven flat text:

Use more dialogue. A conversation between characters; as long as it's moving the plot along or creating some conflict, or playing a role; is a great w...

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Published on January 05, 2010 21:04
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