RE: Crafting Strong Scenes in Short Stories - Some Tips
Hi @jessicakluthe.
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Apologies, newish here and the bots are clearly warping my brain. Anyhow, nice blog here...good reminders RE, show-not-tell and less-can-certainly-be-more. It's always a joy when you get completely trapped inside your own brain and end up writing a "brilliant" instruction manual for how your character is moving through a scene...ahhhh, the joy of deleting paragraphs at a time in the editing process! To your point, cut the BS, consolidate around strong visuals, emotional connection, and reader engagement.
Need some periodic injections of writer wisdom, so will follow you down the rabbit hole :)
I'm starting to put some of my newer stories here on SteemIt, time permitting. Lots to learn here on this platform :)
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ok, interesting, will investigate trufflepig. The autobots everywhere are certainly annoying, but if there is an selective/intelligent bot out there curating good stuff, I'm curious to know how it is working ;)
Ha! Want to know what's so hilarious... I saw the first line of your comment and assumed it was a bot and just didn't read on. HA HA! Thank you for your comment and for reading.
Bwahaaa, a lifetime of trying to craft self-defeating humor is now reaching its pinnacle, mission accomplished. You know, after I wrote it, I thought, "shit, if I read the first line of this comment, I'd probably flag it (if I wasn't so cheap).