Monday, April 7, 2014

Description & Exposition


       Sensory language:  try to provide details that use each of the five senses

       Images that give tone/atmosphere to plot action
o   Brief exercise:  Describe all of the things a character would see inside a room that would scare them

       Use the setting to symbolize/represent – “Hills Like White Elephants”

       Contextualize the scene with need to know information, and save other details for later on, closer to when the background information is important to a scene.

       Diagram a story for when the author presents information; how long do they withhold information, and what do they “do” with that information in the ensuing scenes?
o   Integrate a detail into the plot by having the character do something that uses the information.


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