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March 24, 2010
 

Novels Need Vivid Images to Bring Them to Life

Create Vivid Images to Bring a Novel to Life

“Vivid imagery makes a story world come alive,” says Stacy Whitman, Associate Editor at Wizards of the Coast (Update March, 2010: Whitman is now editorial director of the Tu Books imprint at Lee & Low.) Everyone agrees that a writer’s ability to create an image in a reader’s head through their words is integral to fiction and effective novels. When writers and editors push toward imagery vivid enough to transport readers to new worlds, there are many options.

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Darcy Pattison offers some great tips in her article:
http://www.darcypattison.com/revision/vivid-images-sensory-details/

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February 9, 2010
 

More on the Descriptions: the When and Why – doyce testerman

I firmly believe that in any situation where the description of a thing only does one thing (tells you what something looks like), it can probably be left to the reader for the most part.
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Great advice from Doyce Testerman.

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November 16, 2009
 

Gail Carson Levine: Describing description

If it takes a boring hour to describe a shirt, how arduous and unnecessary to describe a whole room or a landscape! Your reader needs to feel on solid ground, in a real, even if fantastical, place, but you can achieve that in a few strokes. To get to those few, telling strokes, some writers (like me) have to write a lot and then eliminate.

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How much descriptive detail is too much? Gail Carson Levin offers tips:
http://gailcarsonlevine.blogspot.com/2009/11/describing-description.html

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