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Description (Elements of Fiction Writing)| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Monica Wood | | Publisher: | Writer's Digest Books | | Release date: | 01 August, 1999 | | List price: | $12.99 |
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**Summary: Description is a great book for the aspiring author who has already studied Stein on Writing or Self-Editing for Fiction Writers
I've read many books on writing novels, books that pound in messages like show-don't-tell and avoid flashbacks like the plague. Stein on Writing and Self-Editing for Fiction Writers were great books for me when I was writing my first manuscript - and I still refer to them regularly - but now I want to advance my writing further.
Description is great for that. Instead of saying "Show-don't-tell," description teaches methods for creating a balance between showing and telling. While Wood doesn't recommend using flashbacks, like most other books, she provides tools to make flashbacks more seamless. I like her balanced approach, and I consider this a great book for the slightly more advanced author.
I only gave this book four stars because I didn't think that the examples she used were the epitome of great writing, but her examples always got her point across. |
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If It Was Good Enough For Mickey Spillane, How About You. |
| Mickey Spillane follwed a somewhat`suspect--by modern day standards anyway--formula for setting scenes. In all his Mike Hammer novels he always devoted about a page at or near the beginning of each chapter to charging the atmosphere with description of the ace private eye's surroundings. Then, whammo! From there his stories always took off in a rat-a-tat-tat fashion for the rest of the chapter, with hardly a further hint of settings detail. A dubious practice? I wonder. His enormous sales figures would suggest that this approach worked well. ##### Sadly, there always seems to be a big segment of the novel-authorship community who write description in a condescending way, as if their audience is exclusively the typical "Book Groupie"--you know, the quiet, lonely dork who never gets invited to parties and has nothing to say except, "I told you so," and, "Have you read...?" This is why, it seems to me, that so many writers feel they have to drench the reader with movie scene after movie scene after movie scene, depriving the imagination a chance to roam--to make up for some kind of perceived "void" in the Groupie's life. ##### It's because of this "over-reach" that one of the parts of Monica Wood's Description I liked best was the emphasis on the big variety of clever, but restricted, uses of description. I stronly believe in the Plot Development Commandment IX: Thou Shalt Not Over-Describe, and was glad to see this viewpoint validated by Monica Wood. |
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understandable education |
| This is my third book on writing. Having decided to study in my quest to write fiction and without formal universities available I settled on home study. As I read into her book I became extremely satisified with what I was learning.Her descriptions are simple and followed with good examples. I strongly recommend her book to all desiring to improve their intellectual understanding of creative writing. |
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