An Effective Motive? Knight & Fae

[Abigail Rosd]

I deliberately made it vague, but I was thinking something more tangible, along the lines of, “he was saying something about the cold that day, and it turns out Kelpies mark their victims so they feel cold…” or “he was talking about his mom that day, but it doesn’t match what his mom told me, why would she lie?” But since these moments would already have a reason to come up a lot, they make a good place to hide important details since the readers will think they already know why the moment is important.

Oh my goodness I love that! I haven't seen anyone else mention things like that! Maybe I should get my how to write books back out.. I really love it when authors drop hints and have text with double meanings though. I'd love to be able to make something like that

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Oh my goodness I love that! I haven't seen anyone else mention things like that! Maybe I should get my how to write books back out.. I really love it when authors drop hints and have text with double meanings though. I'd love to be able to make something like that

How do you get to the Met? Practice.

If you love a technique and want to be able to use it, go over your favorites and steal. Writing is one of those arts where we steal flagrantly and frequently - note, I'm an alliteration girl - from each other. Someone does something nifty and new? Get out that notebook and start learning. Read. Read until your eyes cross, and then sleep on dreams of words and sounds and emotions.

And when you wake up, you do it again. Writers write, and we only learn by study and emulation. All else is process.

 

[Abigail Rosd]

How do you get to the Met? Practice.

If you love a technique and want to be able to use it, go over your favorites and steal. Writing is one of those arts where we steal flagrantly and frequently - note, I'm an alliteration girl - from each other. Someone does something nifty and new? Get out that notebook and start learning. Read. Read until your eyes cross, and then sleep on dreams of words and sounds and emotions.

And when you wake up, you do it again. Writers write, and we only learn by study and emulation. All else is process.

I'll try that, thank you! I've never referenced or did style study for writing before. I know that reading definitely helps. Thank you