tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post6589221199894493634..comments2024-03-18T01:49:03.153-06:00Comments on Blood-Red Pencil: The Big Edits, Part 2Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14471919576687777886noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-81922167609906725582009-02-07T22:16:00.000-07:002009-02-07T22:16:00.000-07:00Helen great article thanks.Helen great article thanks.Laurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11112458658109887868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-30219719211022290282009-02-07T21:26:00.000-07:002009-02-07T21:26:00.000-07:00Pacing is a good consideration. It's sometimes ove...Pacing is a good consideration. It's sometimes overlooked by authors, even when they've got everything else is right.<BR/><BR/>Morgan Mandel<BR/>http://morganmandel.blogspot.comMorgan Mandelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10118929301591850918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-25762633478913274292009-02-07T17:15:00.000-07:002009-02-07T17:15:00.000-07:00Marvin, my guess is you would be good at applying ...Marvin, my guess is you would be good at applying that idea to your books. You seem to have music in your heart.Helen Gingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09794759602654727110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-1831841702480089422009-02-07T16:27:00.000-07:002009-02-07T16:27:00.000-07:00Good article. I especially loved the symphonic met...Good article. I especially loved the symphonic metaphor with regard to pacing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-17797245572182007502009-02-07T13:13:00.000-07:002009-02-07T13:13:00.000-07:00You want to have active scenes throughout your boo...You want to have active scenes throughout your book, but you have to have narrative, as well. Narrative "tells" but just as important, narrative varies the rhythm of your work. We can sometimes get caught up in our telling, though, almost hypnotized by our great writing. If you analyze the flow of your book and see that you're too weighted down in narrative, then look to see what you can convert to active scenes. Are you describing how a character feels -- show us firsthand. Are you describing the scenery -- let the character feel the scene or describe it to another character. Move the impersonal into the personal.Helen Gingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09794759602654727110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-90864603159196363862009-02-07T11:15:00.000-07:002009-02-07T11:15:00.000-07:00Love your phrase "wallow in words." It's so easy t...Love your phrase "wallow in words." It's so easy to become to become intoxicated by the sound of our own prose and lose touch with our characters and their stories.<BR/><BR/>Any more insights as to how to avoid that temptation?Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04605196832676173145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-53557415758265393922009-02-07T10:44:00.000-07:002009-02-07T10:44:00.000-07:00Oh yes, Meg, there can be not enough narrative. Di...Oh yes, Meg, there can be not enough narrative. Dialogue that goes on forever can lose the reader. And if you put in excessive tags to try to lead your reader through the long stretches of dialogue, the reader will be pulled out of the conversation too much. Use a few tags, add some action, put in, as you say, a bit of narrative.Helen Gingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09794759602654727110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-55131083940123451652009-02-07T10:41:00.000-07:002009-02-07T10:41:00.000-07:00Hi Angie.Don't slog! Take breaks when you start sl...Hi Angie.<BR/><BR/>Don't slog! Take breaks when you start slogging. Do something fun, dance around your office or take a nap.Helen Gingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09794759602654727110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-74662579720401964232009-02-07T09:23:00.000-07:002009-02-07T09:23:00.000-07:00Can there be not enough narrative? I find myself c...Can there be not enough narrative? <BR/><BR/>I find myself chopping up big blocks of dialogue into the lovely more concise sentences, and adding a bit of the narrative in where before it was just all dialogue. <BR/><BR/>I am looking forward to the plot one :DMeghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08718382178913859357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-89266818918299817112009-02-07T08:15:00.000-07:002009-02-07T08:15:00.000-07:00More great tips. Thanks. Slogging through my women...More great tips. Thanks. Slogging through my womens fic ms now. Ug.Angie Ledbetterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16407006980893727627noreply@blogger.com