“Read in order to live.” - Gustave Flaubert
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That’s awesome to hear! It’s a big motivator for me too.
You have to write. A lot of writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and write it for you. They don’t.
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3 Literary Techniques, Part Two: Description New @ The Beginning Writer
Description is an important part of storytelling because it helps you to paint a mental image of the particulars in your story.
A lot of people have a problem with this though. It’s easy to think of dialogue because you can imagine a conversation. But we don’t often make a habit of describing our surroundings or the people we meet, and if we do, it’s very simply, which doesn’t work too well in a novel.
You can’t write a story the same way you would tell a story. When writing description, it helps to remember that the reader isn’t you and has no idea what you are seeing, hearing, or feeling.
“If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who will listen to me if I do? You’re a human being, with a unique story to tell, and you have every right. If you speak with passion, many of us will listen. We need stories to live, all of us. We live by story. Yours enlarges the circle.” ~Richard Rhodes
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