Believable Fiction Workshop - April 2007

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Writing Believable Fiction -- April 2007

         Chapter three of our writing reference book Description and Setting by Ron Rozelle,

a Writer's Digest Publication {popnote:"from the Write Great Fiction Series"}

deals with the proper use of grammar, and the use of literary devices.  We'll skip the grammar for now, and bone-up on several "writer's tricks" you can insert into your fiction to make it read like a professionally published novel or prize winning short story.

But, I can't skim past grammar without trying to make what I consider an important point.

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I don't have my formatting skills quite mastered, but I can spell GRAMMAR, and now the odds are that you can too! 

If you are a visual learner, use it in your writing and note taking activities.  I keep a shoe box full of colored map pencils, different colored ball point pens, roller and gel colors, and thin markers.  If I'm trying to get two main points out of my reading, I'll mark my facts in two different and contrasting colors.  If the writing doesn't work out you can always turn to pictures.com, but keep writing. . . .

Ways to Show Resemblance

         The most effective ways of creating images for your reader is to show him something that it is similar to.  Metaphors, similies, and analogies differ in what they do only by degrees, as each shows some kind of resemblance.  The metapohor is an implied resemblance.  A similie is a stated resemblance.  An analogy is a detailed stated resemblance.  This will fall together.  Keep reading



         Personification, symbolism, and allusions are all ways to nudge your readers toward makinging the connection you want them to make.  Personification is treating a non-oerson like he is a person.  Symbolism is a bigger from high school classics to the current week's top cinemas.  This will all fall together.  Keep reading




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