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Monica Wood helps you squeeze the greatest flavor from the language. She segments description like an orange, separating its slices to let you sample each one.
You'll learn about:
- Detail, and how you can use description to awaken the reader's senses of touch, taste, hearing, smell and sight
- Plot, from advancing story using only relevant description–and how to edit out sluggish, reader-stopping writing
- Style, and the use of description to create a mood that matches your story's content
- Point of view, how selecting omniscient, first person or third person limited narrative influences the descriptive freedom you have
- Creating original word depictions of people, animals, places, weather and movement
Wood teaches by example, developing stories with characters in various situations, to show you how you can apply description techniques.
You'll also see samples of work by such noted writers as Mark Helprin, Anne Tyler and Raymond Carver. And you'll find the dos and don'ts, lists and descriptive alternatives to common verbs and nouns, and tips for editing your work.
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You'll learn about:
- Detail, and how you can use description to awaken the reader's senses of touch, taste, hearing, smell and sight
- Advancing story using only relevant description--and how to edit out sluggish, reader-stopping writing
- Style, and the use of description to create a mood that matches your story's content
- Point of view --how selecting omniscient, first person or third person limited narrative influences the descriptive freedom you have
- Creating original word depictions of people, animals, places, weather and movement
Wood teaches by example, developing stories with characters in various situations, to show you how you can apply description techniques.
You'll also see samples of work by such noted writers as Mark Helprin, Anne Tyler and Raymond Carver. And you'll find the dos and don'ts, lists and descriptive alternatives to common verbs and nouns, and tips for editing your work.
Concordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
"A man thinking about death is not a story...,
By J A W (Norman, OK United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Elements of Fiction Writing - Description (Paperback)
A man building his own coffin is," this is one of the examples of wisdom in Monica Wood's book. Much of this material is common sense, if you think about it, but Wood puts it into words that help us think through our own thoughts. She asks us to focus our descriptive style through character, and relate how the scenes and settings impact the characters or are how they are interpreted by the characters. Make the metaphors and adjectives character inspired, not author inspired. She organizes her book around chapters that deal w/ Description in relation to Dialogue, Forward Motion, Point of View, ect, so this would be a handy resource to pull off the shelf if you are stuck in any given scene, and you want advice for better ways to convey the characters and to move the plot. She gives examples of good description and bad description, and if you're like me, you'll cringe reading the bad examples because they look so familair in my own writing. The only reason I don't give it five stars is I would have liked to have seen more descriptive examples from different genres, instead of incessant "modern-era Great American novel" type of prose. Some addenums on science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, historical fiction, would have helped.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Rating the Elements of Fiction Writing series,
By A Customer
This review is from: Elements of Fiction Writing - Description (Paperback)
I've read all the books in the Elements of Fiction Writing series and this is how I'd rank them."Scene & Structure" "Characters & Viewpoint" "Beginnings, Middles & Ends" The above three books are invaluable -- must reads. They are the best of the series, in my opinion, and are packed with good information on every page. Well-done. "Conflict, Action & Suspense" "Description" "Plot" "Manuscript Submission" "Setting" The above five books are good, solid reads. Again, they contain good information and cover the subject decently. "Voice & Style" "Dialogue" To me, the last two books need to be rewritten. They are by far the weakest of the series. Both suffer from an annoying style, particularly Dialogue, and both are very skimpy on real information. Neither one is very helpful. This is the order in which I'd recommend reading them.
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Great reference,
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This review is from: Elements of Fiction Writing - Description (Paperback)
This book is packed full of useful information on a wide variety of topics relating to description. There are lots of before/after examples illustrating how writing can be improved. Each chapter also contains a short summary of the advice covered and there is also a final chapter summarizing the book as a whole. Very well done.
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