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Never Name an Emotion
by K.M. Weiland @ Wordplay storytellingwriting techniques and stylesVivid writing demands more than just telling a reader how a character is feeling. As readers, we don’t care what the characters are experiencing so much as we care what we experience through the characters. But that’s easier said than done.
Don’t ignore the elephant in the room – a law of description
by Roz Morris @ Dirty White Candy storytellingwriting techniques and stylesA common problem in novel manuscripts is that writers don’t use physical description enough. We don’t know what it’s like to stand next to a particular character. Not just their eye or hair colour, which actually makes little difference. I’m talking about how they make the other characters feel. That’s one of the things that makes a character real.