A great example of what the title says 😀
As a writer who has extensive tech writing experience, I admit that I sometimes have a difficult time with scene description.
I blame it on my Technical Writing training. Tech writing is all about “just the facts, ma’am.” It’s all about the who, what, when, where, and how of an action. And pretty much nothing else.
Creative (and I’m including memoir writing) is all about the facts and then some (ma’am.) When you write for entertainment you need to use the senses – the smell, visual, taste, hearing and sight information that you have literally at your fingertips. You also have to add thought and reason to any action.
As a tech writer, when I write directions, I’ll write something like:
- Add one teaspoon of cinnamon to the batter.
Quick, efficient, absolute no doubt as to want I want the action to be.
But when I write creatively, constant directives…
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Interesting to notice how creative writing and what is considered good writing changes with time. Read the words in the pictured book, -ly words to qualify the dialogue and not limited to just use ‘said’ (you can but once in a while, and certainly not multiple times in the same page): ‘exclaimed passionately’, ‘said curtly’, ‘insisted’.
A today’s editor would mark that page with lots of red marks 😉
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I hadn’t noticed that Massimo, but then, I’m a reader, not a writer 😀
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