Post by Laylani on Jul 30, 2011 19:59:58 GMT -5
So, you're having trouble doing an intro post.
Sit back, close your eyes, visualize the setting. Keep in mind that you want to convey a feeling... not necessarily an emotion. You want the readers to get a sense of joyful and bubbly, soft and melancholy, sharp and bitter, classy and tasteful, hedonistic and sumptous... things like that!
So, start with the Setting. Dig into that vocabulary of yours... or the Thesaurus <3, and start using verbs, adverbs and adjectives that you normally wouldn't. Then reread it and fix it up so it flows~ Unless, of course, you're trying to convey the feeling of juxtiposition, chaos, and jaggedness <3. But even that has a certain flow~
Fall back on yourself and how you'd see a room if you were to walk into it. Then... narrarate. On a personal note, I love narritives. But write it in the 3rd person and use "You". We don't just use our eyes to function, we have 5 senses and in our characters case, 6 or more. Address each of these, descrive that gleam on the beaker, the acidic metallic smells mingling with earthtones... the slight dampness on the brick walls... the crumbling mortar layed centuries ago. Breath life into it.
It's not simple at first, not at all. But when you fall back to what we learned in 2nd grade, Who, What, When, Where and Why, it helps the uninspired and blank to focus... to get the creative process going!
Cons
The flip side is that we get lost in the detail. The whole "Can't see the Woods for the Trees" mentality. I suffer from this like nothing else! But then, I go into outline mode and structure/organize my thoughts. Anyone who's ever discussed anything with me knows I go off in whole and complete tangents, only to completely scrap them! Most view that as a waste, but with me, I saw it to the end, didn't like it, time to come up with something else!
So, in the end, experiment. You may find your happy medium Immediately! It may take some time! Or, like me, you'll have bouts of both at any given and/or the same time!