Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Tue, Jun 06 2017
Cake Paragraphs
Paragraphs in prose have some parallels to writing down a cake recipe. You need to provide full information to the reader, including specifics to define your scene and characters, adding adjectives when it's helpful, grudgingly including a rare dash of adverbs when absolutely necessary and saving any frosting or sprinkles for a bit of balance and color to define your voice. Use as many words as you need to use, but use them with purpose and precision. Put aside the notions of a soup-from-leftovers, with everything possible grabbed up and tossed into the mix and not a thought for the final product. Concentrate instead on making every word of a paragraph an ingredient that results in the reader taking one exquisite bite after another.
posted at: 13:55 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
Paragraphs in prose have some parallels to writing down a cake recipe. You need to provide full information to the reader, including specifics to define your scene and characters, adding adjectives when it's helpful, grudgingly including a rare dash of adverbs when absolutely necessary and saving any frosting or sprinkles for a bit of balance and color to define your voice. Use as many words as you need to use, but use them with purpose and precision. Put aside the notions of a soup-from-leftovers, with everything possible grabbed up and tossed into the mix and not a thought for the final product. Concentrate instead on making every word of a paragraph an ingredient that results in the reader taking one exquisite bite after another.
posted at: 13:55 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry