Wrensul
New Member
Hello, fellows.
I’m Wren. On the big quest to make my writing publish-worthy. All experiments and practice for now.
I am absolutely and delightfully haunted by my world building hobby. Call it a special interest. I am developing a world called Parsk and I hope that Parsk is my career someday.
If the writing thing doesn’t work out, maybe I’ll just try raising geese instead. . .
Very much looking forward to talking craft and inspiration. And hearing about other people’s worlds, too!
Now, I do have a big few questions to start with.
As a visual artist, I’m always working from the imagination-movies in my head. I understand the common rule; we’re not listing out every action in the character’s day, right? Don’t start at waking up on the pillow. Don’t end at brushing their teeth and going to bed. Focus on the plot.
How do you focus on the flow of your action?
Where do you start your scenes from? How do you trim up your work so that only the most pertinent beats remain? Do you have any suggestions for keeping action tight? If you’re seeing absolutely every moment of a character’s experience in your own head, how do you hone in on just the right details to express?
Ultimately, I know there is a “loss of data”, for those of us seeing “movies”. And that we have to allow readers to fill in and invent many things.
Their relationship to our work is as valid as our own.
Anyway, here are my grimy baby geese from the view of a doggy door, and also my pudgy, judgmental little dog.
I’m Wren. On the big quest to make my writing publish-worthy. All experiments and practice for now.
I am absolutely and delightfully haunted by my world building hobby. Call it a special interest. I am developing a world called Parsk and I hope that Parsk is my career someday.
If the writing thing doesn’t work out, maybe I’ll just try raising geese instead. . .
Very much looking forward to talking craft and inspiration. And hearing about other people’s worlds, too!
Now, I do have a big few questions to start with.
As a visual artist, I’m always working from the imagination-movies in my head. I understand the common rule; we’re not listing out every action in the character’s day, right? Don’t start at waking up on the pillow. Don’t end at brushing their teeth and going to bed. Focus on the plot.
How do you focus on the flow of your action?
Where do you start your scenes from? How do you trim up your work so that only the most pertinent beats remain? Do you have any suggestions for keeping action tight? If you’re seeing absolutely every moment of a character’s experience in your own head, how do you hone in on just the right details to express?
Ultimately, I know there is a “loss of data”, for those of us seeing “movies”. And that we have to allow readers to fill in and invent many things.
Their relationship to our work is as valid as our own.
Anyway, here are my grimy baby geese from the view of a doggy door, and also my pudgy, judgmental little dog.
