The Writer's Chatroom Topic Chat: Detail That Matters And Detail That Doesn't
Published: Wed, 10/15/14
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(Sally Franklin Christie is in charge tonight)
Mary Carol Moore wrote the topic post for this week.
I am currently prepping characters, settings and hopefully a few plot ideas
for NaNoWriMo. Everyone who is familiar with NaNo knows that writing big
unedited details is a great way to make the daily word count, 1667. We also
know that post NaNo we will be either so sick of our story we close the file and
walk away or we will be anxious to begin editing. So, I am hoping we can do the
'bad' things in this post as some of us embark on a NaNo journey and I hope some
of us can use this post in our current WIPs or after NaNo as a sort of mop up.
NaNoWriMo.org This week's topic --- Detail That Matters and Detail That Doesn't: Why the First Makes Your Writing Come Alive and the Second Dulls the Shine http://howtoplanwriteanddevelopabook.blogspot.com/2014/10/detail-that-matters-and-detail-that.html#sthash.ce1FEdB2.dpuf Some people love lots of sensory detail in writing. I'm one of them. (Audrey is not one of them.) If a writer shows me the place, what the people wear, the smells and sounds, I'm right there with the story. But I've learned over the years that detail only works if it's relevant to what's happening. One of my teachers called it "salient detail." In other words, if the character or narrator isn't experiencing shifts because of the detail, it's irrelevant to the reader. It can even derail the story's pace and purpose, dulling its shine. Join us tonight to discuss details for the first hour. We'll take any other questions you may have in the second hour. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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