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| If you are old enough, or you watch the right kind of movies, you will know the old roadside robber line, "Your money or your life." This line is very pointless. If the money is not willingly surrendered, then the outcome is invariably: "Your money and your life." |
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Your Story or Your Life!
You do not have to wait until you get robbed to write your own adventure down. Even if you think that your life is boring, I respectfully disagree. As a writer, you have the power to make the walk to the supermarket into a breathtaking adventure. You can choose to take any part of your day, it can be this day or a day in the past, to turn into a story.
To write action, all you need is something happening. Anything at all. Just think of the many articles about randomly nothing that you can find on the internet just by clicking on one of the major article collection sites. How often do you see a headline in which some leftover famous person from the 1980s went shopping? All the time. At least if you have ever, even just once, searched for Pamela Anderson. I don't think she does anything except go shopping for groceries. Oh, sometimes she gets married. But she shops for groceries a little more frequently.
Now that I've told you about one person's task that was somehow turned into clickbait online, elevate your own life to something worthy of international attention. Just do it. Write about something you did today or last week. Try to extract as much action as possible. Why would you do that and why would anyone read it?
You would do it because it's something you know. Writing about something that happened to you will help you to learn how to paint a picture with words for those who weren't there. Others will want to read it if you wrote it in a way that they felt something. It doesn't matter whether the reader laughs, cries, or gets angry. As long as your reader felt anything at all, you are on the right track.
Keep in mind that you are not allowed to illustrate any part with the phrase "You had to be there." Nobody was there. At least not your readers. Your job is to take your story and make it so full of action that your reader stays glued to the page and says at the end, "I wish I could be there." or even better "I wish I could know more about your story."
What will you write about? grocery shopping? a walk through a park? picking up your niece from her tennis lesson? |
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Replies to my last Action/Adventure newsletter "Visual Storytelling" How do you make your writing come to life for your readers?
John & James Wegner wrote: We try to use analogies that stick with the reader. The right one can really make the difference. Good post. \m/ Forge on! \m/.
LorenIsOneOfMyNames wrote: I just try to be realistic. Especially with dialogue and descriptions, if it's too fancy it'll alienate the readers from your story, and you don't want that.
BakaBellflower wrote: I write about personal experiences or things that I can imagine easily. Iām kind of ambitious, so I use that to my advantage to make my story more realistic.
Save the Turkeys!  wrote: I have heard that the secret to bringing one's writing to life is to creatively place the blame convincingly...and that's what I've heard. Just don't say I said it.
elephantsealer  wrote: I think verbs give life to writing. For example, Mary awoke with a start, jumped out of her bed, bumped her head against the door of a tall set of drawers by her bed as blood oozed out of her forehead, and slipped flat on the carpeted floor when she stepped upon one of her child's toy train.
Dragonfly wrote: By trying to make the words feel like more than words. I'm learning that describing things/places/events better is so important, they all bring the words to life.
Monty  wrote: I like the points you made, thank you for a good N/L |
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