Monday, November 18, 2013

Tips for Writing Stories:

Write depicted scenes and depicted dialogues: the which thread elements of a point "between lines" when reading, without explicitly "pointing out;" as in narrating a story.

Write implicitly as to a point by employing depicted scenes and depicted dialogue of character sets in writing to outline a "big picture" upon completion of reading a piece.

Write stories in present tense.

For example: 

The man slips his feet out from his slippers, sits down in an easy chair, reaches for a cigarette out of a pack on a table next to the chair, slides one out of the pack, lights it with a match retrieved from his vest pocket after fumbling around for a light and puffs easing back into his chair at home.

Followed by THIS narrative:

He says to his wife seated on a nearby love seat that he has had a long day when she questions him about reaching for a cigarette.  

Or,

Followed by THIS dialogue:

"Honey?  Why do you have to reach for a cigarette as soon as you sit down?" his wife asks from a nearby love seat in the dimly lit living space of their house on a winter's night.

"I've had a long day."

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