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superjars -> RE: =Mech= need help writing (10/24/2010 11:33:59)
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To follow up on your previous question, how I did it was through the cunning use of adjectives. I like the way Xirminator put it, but I'd go a step further: if you want to write a particular scene, start by going to the actual locale and take a notepad or something. Find a place to sit down with a nice vantage point of the entire area and write down everything you see in as much detail as possible. If you want to get better at writing details, this is one of the best ways to do it.
Eventually, as you do this more and more, you'll find that you can capture the image in your brain and do the same exercise with it. You can find a vantage point and start looking around the world you're creating in your mind. The details will pop out at you, and you'll get much more than you need.
Then, when you hit that point, you'll be on the next step in the process: searching through your vast framework of descriptions to pull the important ones out, the ones that add most to your story and it's particular movements. Like for the book of darkness, you want to avoid using the pretty descriptions in your world and focus on the dark, brooding ones.
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