23 July 2016, this blog is about writing in scenes. I’m focusing on the tools to build scenes. I’ll leave up the parts of a novel because I think this is an important picture for any novelist. I’m writing about how to begin and write a novel.
- The initial scene
- The rising action
- The Climax
- The falling action
- The dénouement
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Today’s Blog: The skill of using language comes from the ability to put together figures of speech that act as symbols in writing.
Short digression: I’m back home on the tarmac.
Here are my rules of writing:
- Entertain your readers.
- Don’t confuse your readers.
- Ground your readers in the writing.
- Don’t show (or tell) everything.
4a. Show what can be seen, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted on the stage of the novel.
- Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.
Creativity is the extrapolation of older ideas to form new ones or to present old ideas in a new form. It is a reflection of something new created with ties to the history, science, and logic (the intellect). Creativity requires consuming, thinking, and producing.
Scene development:
- Scene input (easy)
- Scene output (a little harder)
- Scene setting (basic stuff)
- Creativity (creative elements of the scene)
- Tension (development of creative elements to build excitement)
- Release (climax of creative elements)
First step of writing—enjoy writing. Writing is a chore—especially if you don’t know what you are doing, and you don’t know where you are going. Let me help you with that.
Writing is a chore. How do we make writing as enjoyable as possible? Then how do we bring to bear those skills. Let’s look at building writing skills.
If you have the sentence down—I hope you do, I can really help you. The world of writing comes alive with the paragraph.
If you didn’t get the hint—I’m recommending you practice writing good paragraphs. At this point, I’m suggesting you write descriptive paragraphs. Start with a good topic sentence, connect the sentences with logic and strong grammar conjugations, and end with a kicker or just a good conclusion for the paragraph.
Writing an action oriented paragraph is still a great exercise. Pick a subject you know something about or that you want to know something about and write a cohesive paragraph about the action. For example, a sword fight, a gun fight, an air to air fight, a tank fight, etc. I mentioned most of these because I’ve either used them in my novels or I know a lot about them. I’ve studied fencing and I fence sabre. I shoot and have shot in the military. I worked in an armored unit with the Army. I was a pilot in the Air Force. I know a lot about all these subjects, and I can easily write about them. I have written about them in my novels. Now, you pick some action topic you are qualified to write about, and write an action oriented paragraph. If you choose wisely, you can use the paragraph from your journal to fill out a scene in a novel.
You might say, “I don’t have anything action oriented to write about,” or, “I don’t have a journal.” These are things we need to correct—and soon.
I’ll write more tomorrow.
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