May 23, 2019
"Every scene in your story needs to move your reader’s emotions. You can’t afford to have any scenes that don’t."
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"Every scene in your story needs to move your reader’s emotions. You can’t afford to have any scenes that don’t."
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Every novelist has been given the completely useless advice to “Show, don’t tell.” Here’s what that actually means, and how to do it.
"Novelists typically use 7 tools to write their stories. Here they are:
Action
DialogueÂ
Interior Monologue
Interior Emotion
Sensory Description
Narrative Summary
Exposition
The first 5 of these (Action, Dialogue, Interior Monologue, Interior Emotion, and Sensory Description) are what editors mean by “Showing”. The last 2 (Narrative Summary and Exposition) are what editors mean by “Telling.”Â
None of these are “always right” or “always wrong” to use. Each of them has a place, and part of the art of fiction writing is knowing which tools to use for any given paragraph. When an editor scrawls “Show, Don’t Tell” in your manuscript, they mean that the particular section they marked should use the “Showing” tools, rather than the “Telling” tools.Â
But you can see the problem. Just saying “Show, Don’t Tell” doesn’t give you any guidance on which of the 5 “Showing” tools to use. Nor does it give you any insight into why Narrative Summary or Exposition was the wrong choice for the offending paragraph. "
(to this, I'll add that 3 and 4 are sometimes flagged as "telling" instead of showing)
Oxygen by John B. Olson & Randy Ingermanson
Olson and Ingermanson blend crisply realistic astronautics with the untidiness of human emotions, creating a thriller about people who must—yet cannot—trust each other if they want to survive. Continue reading Oxygen by John B. Olson & Randy Ingermanson
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Novel Update
This is my second time attempting to build up a novel plot with The Snowflake Method by Randy Ingermanson (the first time I didn't even get past step 2 simply because I wasn't much interested in the story and I was putting a lot of pressure on myself to make everything as perfect as possible).
Currently, I'm working on step 4 (yay! halfway through!); sometimes I have to step back and just stare at the ceiling trying to figure out how to make things more dynamic, interesting, or just make sense in my head.
My novel is very much inspired by gothic literature, and the most challenging (but fun!) part of it is that, unlike Lovecraftian narratives, everything has a reason; in Gothic literature, you're not left wondering so much about the why, but the how and when.
So yeah, I'm on step 4 and I'm trying to figure out how and when the gothic elements of my story are supposed to happen. This time around I'm just trying to have fun and see where all this world-building takes me!
7 passos do método floco de neve resumido
existe esse cara chamado Randy Ingermanson e ele tem um mĂ©todo onde vocĂŞ tem uma idĂ©ia bem básica e vai desenvolvendo ela, colocando mais detalhes e mais detalhes e depois mais detalhes como se vocĂŞ estivesse esculpindo uma estátua a partir de um bloco de pedra ou fazendo um desenho a partir do esboço, ou tipo o perĂmetro de um triângulo que vai ganhando mais triângulos atĂ© parece um floco de neve Ăşnico e especial. Primeiro passo," crie em uma hora, uma sinopse de uma frase sobre a sua histĂłria", normalmente a gente chama isso de logline e basicamente criamos um personagem principal e conta o que acontece com ele, algo tipo um jovem herdeiro de uma fortuna ver os seus pais serem assassinados e decide combate o crime, segundo passo," expanda essa frase em um parágrafo em uma hora", descrevendo a premissa, os maiores desastres e o fim, ele pede para vocĂŞ descreve os piores desastres porque segundo ele ver histĂłrias como trĂŞs desastres e um final e nas palavras dele," se vocĂŞ acredita na estrutura de 3 atos, o primeiro desastre corresponde ao final do primeiro ato. O segundo desastre Ă© o meio do segundo ato e o terceiro Ă© o fim do segundo ato, que força o terceiro ato, resolvendo tudo"," tudo bem se o primeiro desastre for causado por circunstâncias externas, mas (...) o segundo e terceiro desastres devem ser causados pelas tentativas do protagonista de consertar as coisas", e isso tudo com apenas 5 frases. Terceiro passo," faça a mesma coisa para os personagens"," personagens sĂŁo a partir mais importante de uma histĂłria e o tempo que vocĂŞ investir desenvolvendo eles previamente vai valer 10X vezes mais quando vocĂŞ começar a escrever", basicamente use uma página com o nome do personagem, o arco desse personagem, o que ele quer, o que ele precisa, o que o impede, como ele muda e evolui. Quarto passo," transforme as 5 frases em 5 parágrafos", aproveite para revisa a sua histĂłria e resolver todos os problemas de lĂłgica," isso Ă© bem divertido, e ao final vocĂŞ vai ter um Ăłtimo esqueleto(...) da sua histĂłria". Quinto passo, escreva uma descrição de uma página para cada personagem importante", escreva quem eles sĂŁo? O eles querem? Como eles se comportam? Porque eles sĂŁo assim? O Que acontece com eles? O que eles se tornam? Basicamente," use um dia ou dois e escreva uma descrição de uma página para cada personagem importante e um de meia página para cada personagem relevante. Essa descrições devem conta a histĂłria do ponto de vista do personagem"," ultimamente eu tenho usado os resultados desse estágio nas minhas propostas [para editoras] ao invĂ©s de uma sinopse com base na estrutura da histĂłria. Editores adoram sinopse baseada em personagens, porque editores adoram ficção baseada em personagens". Sexto passo," use quando tempo vocĂŞ quiser para descrever tudo sobre os seus personagens". SĂ©timo passo," senta lá e escreve",
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The most common reasons for predictable plots:
Weak research: if you haven’t researched your story world well enough, you’ll fall back on what “everybody knows,” which is usually what everybody learned from watching thousands of hours of TV. And TV is a bad way to learn about cops, or doctors, or scientists, or priests, or just about anything. TV is Cliché City. The solution? Do more research on your story world. Find out so much that you won’t rely on the obvious plot twists you learned on TV. You’ll come up with something new.
Weak setbacks in your scenes When your character hits a setback, she’s forced into a dilemma. This needs to be a real dilemma with no good options. If you leave them any good options, then both they and the reader are gong to see it--and the reader will probably see it first. To solve this, strengthen your setbacks. Box in your characters tighter. Reduce their options.
Weak values for your characters: Your characters become unpredictable when they have a conflict in their underlying values—the core truths they believe about the world. If your characters are predictable, then you can solve this by giving them values that conflict, forcing them into tough moral dilemmas. They’ll make choices that your reader can’t predict, because they’ll make choices that you can’t predict. Your characters will start acting like they have a mind of their own. Let them. Be surprised.
-Randy Ingermanson, Writing Fiction for Dummies
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