had a great writing session. I was just describing pain for like.... 8 pages. Stream of consciousness. I realized that maybe I know a little too much about pain. LOL
What subject do you excel at describing?
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@Canvasgal endless angst and sarcasm. That could be a YA novel by itself.
@DanIsWriting I could right about animals all day! Probably pain too, unfortunately. I try not to think about it. Is that bad? I think we all do that, don't we?
@IrieDeby I think its natural to avoid reliving it, but we are compelled to understand someone elses. Like we're training ourselves for something worse, but protecting ourselves from what we already know.
@DanIsWriting I think you are so right, Dan. That's it exactly!
@DanIsWriting I’m told that my action (fighting in my fantasy stories) is quite good.
Not for me to say whether they’re right or wrong, but I do enjoy describing a good scrap. 😅
@JanGoesWriting that can be very useful. I've read a lot of boring blow by blow fight scenes. Enough to realize how important it is not to not to fuck up.
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Tell you what I'm NOT good at describing: gadgets. Bit of a problem when I set my #nanowrimo project 300k years in the future.
Guess I will have to give up my dreams of ever being an inventor. *sigh*
@TheStorySmith I could see that being a challenge. Most sci-fi authors I've read that successfully do this use the MC's tech incompetence as a tool to not need to fully understand what they're describing, just how they use it.
On the other hand, I found William Gibsons ability to predict such fine details of the future of computers, the internet and technology to be pretty impressive 40 years later.
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Angst. After that, sarcasm. They go hand in hand.