Writerly Ways and a big YAY
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cornerofmadnessFirst the yay, I sold Mysterious Spirit to Dreamspinner press. This was the B&D fantasy homoerotic short story. It'll be one of their napsize dreams (or something like that.) Thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evil_little_dog, mjules and my original fiction filter for being the first readers and for the market suggestions.
Setting as a point of view
This was something writers' digest was going on about but I didn't really like their examples. However,I think it's something to consider. I'm weak at it. No doubt of that in my mind. I used to be better. Writers groups are often a very good thing but when they get the destructive people in them they become less so. There are two types of these people, the one who tromps like Godzilla. Frankly they're easy to ignore. You know they're just getting off on demeaning people. THe second is the insidious one who does sound like they're trying to help until you stand back and look at the pattern. The latter happened to me. It damaged my descriptive ability.
So how do you handle your settings? Do you think you do them well? Do you think you blop it all out at the beginning in too much detail then never see it again (that's me)? Can you picture it in your head? Or not (also me all too often). Got any tricks to handling it. We'd love to hear (we had a good discussion last weekend...well, I thought so. People are probably sitting there thinking, bitch...)
Try an exercise in just giving the setting. The only trick I have it to avoid the It was.... it looks... passiveness.
116830 / 175000 words. 67% done!
evil_little_dog, mjules and my original fiction filter for being the first readers and for the market suggestions.Setting as a point of view
This was something writers' digest was going on about but I didn't really like their examples. However,I think it's something to consider. I'm weak at it. No doubt of that in my mind. I used to be better. Writers groups are often a very good thing but when they get the destructive people in them they become less so. There are two types of these people, the one who tromps like Godzilla. Frankly they're easy to ignore. You know they're just getting off on demeaning people. THe second is the insidious one who does sound like they're trying to help until you stand back and look at the pattern. The latter happened to me. It damaged my descriptive ability.
So how do you handle your settings? Do you think you do them well? Do you think you blop it all out at the beginning in too much detail then never see it again (that's me)? Can you picture it in your head? Or not (also me all too often). Got any tricks to handling it. We'd love to hear (we had a good discussion last weekend...well, I thought so. People are probably sitting there thinking, bitch...)
Try an exercise in just giving the setting. The only trick I have it to avoid the It was.... it looks... passiveness.
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Date: 2009-10-25 04:57 pm (UTC)I got a great compliment earlier today on one of my fanfics saying that my description was perfect, because the reader could see and feel and sense everything going on around the characters. Much yay.
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Date: 2009-10-25 05:09 pm (UTC)cool. so share tips already
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Date: 2009-10-26 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-26 02:49 am (UTC)