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How To Add Richness To Your Story by Kathleen Eagle
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1. A good story teller pulls you into the story. Orally, they use hands, eyes, body and words. Use this technique in your writing. The reader will then "experience the story. 2. Allow your reader to picture the scene. Don't tell them. Show them through the use of hands, eyes, etc. 3. Carefully choose details. What most catches eyes, ears, nose. Be careful, through, details can slow down the pace of your story. 4. Combine scenes with character action to show emotion. 5. Put yourself there and feel what you want your reader to feel. 6. Choose the details the characters would choose. 7. Power lies in the verbs not the adverbs and adjectives. 8. Can you see what you write? What stays with you? 9. Be aware of what you are experiencing everyday. 10. Imagine something, then describe it out loud. 11. Weave sensory details through your dialogue and weave in introspection. 12. Let your mind go - then go back and edit. 13. Be specific. Example: Flower - rose. About the author . . . Kathleen Eagle published her first book, a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award winner, with Silhouette Books in 1984. Since then she has published more than 30 books, including historical and contemporary, series and single title—earning her nearly every award in the industry, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times Magazine and RWA's prestigious RITA for her first mainstream novel, THIS TIME FOREVER. She was Keynote Speaker for RWA's national conference in 1993 and was named Midwest Fiction Writer of the Year by her RWA chapter in 1995. Her books have consistently appeared on regional and national bestseller lists. Visit Kathleen Eagle's website at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/8078/eagle.html
(Reprinted with permission of the author Kathleen Eagle)
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