4/25/08 02:41 pm - I like this journal because no one reads it so I can talk about this.
My view on Scene.
My description tends, to put it kindly, sparse, I sometimes have been asked to add more of it in my writing, at least to break up the vast flotillas of dialog in my writing. I do, tending to more character actions.
But the problem is when I am writing, rarely do I ever (well hardly ever) see beyond the character. It for the most part is just background. The chracters, let me be honest people. (No mere bag of bones to me.) are the most important thing.
Why would I spend hours agonising over what a bathroom looks like especially since it is going to only appear once. I call it a bathroom and leave it at that. Because once it hits your brain you are going to picture something different then I do. (I do try to make sure were in the same ballpark.)
I am as equally vague with character descriptions but for different reasons. I want to be suprised when I ask you what Jellyroll looks like. The more description I write the more I push out your ideas and that is the most important part of this relationship. The fact you treat mere words, just letters as real. That you can somehow see anything is amazing and wonderful. So I'll continue being generic where I need to be and specific where it counts.
Now that I wasted good words. It time to process the Photo's
My description tends, to put it kindly, sparse, I sometimes have been asked to add more of it in my writing, at least to break up the vast flotillas of dialog in my writing. I do, tending to more character actions.
But the problem is when I am writing, rarely do I ever (well hardly ever) see beyond the character. It for the most part is just background. The chracters, let me be honest people. (No mere bag of bones to me.) are the most important thing.
Why would I spend hours agonising over what a bathroom looks like especially since it is going to only appear once. I call it a bathroom and leave it at that. Because once it hits your brain you are going to picture something different then I do. (I do try to make sure were in the same ballpark.)
I am as equally vague with character descriptions but for different reasons. I want to be suprised when I ask you what Jellyroll looks like. The more description I write the more I push out your ideas and that is the most important part of this relationship. The fact you treat mere words, just letters as real. That you can somehow see anything is amazing and wonderful. So I'll continue being generic where I need to be and specific where it counts.
Now that I wasted good words. It time to process the Photo's