I learned a couple things from my latest short story, and I thought, why not share what I learned on here....
These are both seemingly small things, but IMO had a pretty big impact on the result.
1. Character development--simply put, I made the characters argue with each other, and this did wonders for making the characters feel more real. Lesson learned: make characters argue with each other more.
2. I tried to make my narrative style more casual, and sound like the speech of the narrator. Turns out that this is one of my favorite parts of the story. I just like the way it reads. In comparison to the relatively formal, stilted prose of my novel-in-progress (completely unrelated to the story), I like the casual style a lot more. So perhaps there's a lesson to be learned here about developing quirks of character speech, and then narrating accordingly.
These are both seemingly small things, but IMO had a pretty big impact on the result.
1. Character development--simply put, I made the characters argue with each other, and this did wonders for making the characters feel more real. Lesson learned: make characters argue with each other more.
2. I tried to make my narrative style more casual, and sound like the speech of the narrator. Turns out that this is one of my favorite parts of the story. I just like the way it reads. In comparison to the relatively formal, stilted prose of my novel-in-progress (completely unrelated to the story), I like the casual style a lot more. So perhaps there's a lesson to be learned here about developing quirks of character speech, and then narrating accordingly.
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