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Our upcoming Craft Chat will be on how to add suspense to your novel. Here is an excellent resource, one that is worthy of being bookmarked and referenced every now and again: Suspense Writing and Action Scenes –
(http://www.creative-writing-solutions.com/suspense-writing.html)
The article (be sure to read both pages) guides the author through some thoughtful ways in which to write good physical fight scenes, characters and "the hook."
At the end there are a few writing prompts. Why not give them a whirl?
Writing Prompt: Garbology
From Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft by Janet Burroway
If people are characterized by the objects they choose, own, wear, and carry with them, they are also revealed in what they throw away. Garbology is the study of society or culture by examining and analyzing its refuse. Write a character sketch by describing the contents of your character’s waste basket.
Character Development: Writing Exercise
Create a list of people and then add an adjective. You might have woman, man, child and then adding the adjective have: sleazy man, woeful child, lunatic woman. Try on professions for size: timid garbage man, boastful weight lifter, etc. Once you have a list (keep it for future reference) pick two characters and decide what one wants from the other.
Writing Prompt
According to Dictionary.com’s “Word of the Day” sentient\SEN-shee-uhnt; -tee-; -shuhnt\, is an adjective:
1. Capable of perceiving by the senses; conscious.
2. Experiencing sensation or feeling.
- I can remember very vividly the first time I became aware of my
existence; how for the first time I realised that I was a
sentient human being in a perceptible world.
– Lord Berners, First Childhood- Answers to such profound questions as whether we are the only
sentient beings in the universe, whether life is the product of
random accident or deeply rooted law, and whether there may be
some sort of ultimate meaning to our existence, hinge on what
science can reveal about the formation of life.
– Paul Davies, The Fifth Miracle
As writers, we are very well aware of, or at least strive to be, our characters’ ability to sense things. We wish to find a way to write this in a way that evokes the feeling from our audience.
Exercise: Pick an object from your past that evokes a memory. Spend five minutes examining the object focusing on the emotions that are evoked through your senses.
Write three paragraphs, each paragraph using a different sense, describing the object. Your goal is to detail the object without telling what it is, but in a way that your audience shares the emotions or even your memories.
Write on!
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