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Creative Writing Exercises For Dummies
Creating a Location’s Fine Detail ...............................................................132
Using maps for realism......................................................................132
Imagining and recording the finer points........................................133
Inventing Your Own World: Fantasy and Science Fiction.......................134
Chapter 11: Appreciating the Power of the Senses ...............137
Creating a Colourful, Meaningful World....................................................137
Giving associations to colours..........................................................138
Colouring in scenes and characters.................................................140
Listening to Sound and Music on the Page...............................................141
Sensing scenic sounds.......................................................................141
Making musical moments..................................................................142
Sparking Emotions with Smell....................................................................143
Tantalising with Taste and Food................................................................144
Feeling Your Way with Touch and Texture...............................................146
Chapter 12: Getting Things Done: Describing Action and Activity.... 147
Watching Characters Tackling Everyday Tasks.......................................147
Homing in on domestic life................................................................148
Working at creating a work life.........................................................148
Chilling out to reveal character at play...........................................149
Writing Dramatic Action Scenes.................................................................149
Choosing the best words for action scenes....................................150
Controlling a huge cast......................................................................151
Portraying Violence and Its Effects............................................................152
Chapter 13: Building Character with Objects and Possessions. ....155
Giving Your Characters Significant Possessions......................................155
Choosing objects to use.....................................................................156
Owning objects(and being owned by them)...................................157
Remembering to Use Objects to Spark Memories!...................................158
Representing Characters: Objects as Symbols.........................................159
Same object, different meaning.........................................................160
Making use of magical objects and superstitions...........................160
Getting(metaphorically) emotional..................................................162
Experiencing unexpected meetings with objects...........................163
Creating Clues to Your Character..............................................................164
Using objects to stand in for aspects of your characters..............164
Seeing things in the dark....................................................................166
Chapter 14: Using Description to Create Atmosphere
and . . . and . . . Suspense!. ....................................167
Adding Ambience and Atmosphere...........................................................168
Choosing your words carefully.........................................................168
Enhancing character and atmosphere with description...............169