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FINISH THAT NOVEL—Tips to Help You Go the Distance
Posted by Author Kristen Lamb in Writing Tips on December 13, 2016
Today, Alex Limberg is with us again, and he is talking about one of the most important and tricky issues in writing: Endurance. It doesn't matter how well we write, how pretty the prose or witty the dialogue. WE MUST FINISH.
No half-finished brilliant manuscript ever became a runaway best-seller but a lot of finished "meh" ones have.
Alex has some very effective tactics and practical examples to help you out.
Just look at his list and pick out the ones that work for you. And if you want to see how good your story really is or what it might be missing, definitely check out his free checklist of "44 Key Questions" to make your story awesome. Post starts in 3… 2… 1… 0:
Have you ever written an entire novel? If so, then you know that it takes a lot of stamina.
I'm not just talking about the really long ones, the brick-like ones you could kill a chicken with. Sometimes it seems like a mystery how Ayn Rand could write something like Atlas Shrugged or how Tolkien could ever complete Lord of the Rings.
I mean, did they never have to do the laundry or cut their toe nails, did life never get in the way?
Did they never get utterly frustrated by the sheer amount of pages they had to write – and by the fact they had to write them well?
I'm sure all of this did happen, but here is the important part: They didn't let it stop them. They never ever quit. And neither should you.
Luckily, there are a couple of excellent tactics to help you if you are stuck. Here is what you can do if your writing project takes ages to come together and is starting to wear you down:
1. Maybe your story needs change
If something is fundamentally wrong with your story, no psychological recharging will help you; you would just end up frustrated anyways. Instead, your first step is to check if some elements of your novel want to be shuffled around.
Maybe there is one character too many or too few, or one of the figures is making decisions that don't correspond to her personality.
Maybe the plot needs to be tightened or it needs more logic.
Maybe the point of view is off.
Take notes, think about it, and if you get the impression that there is something wrong with your story, try a different route.
To help you examine any wrong turns your story might have taken, you can download my free goodie about "44 Key Questions" to check your story. Use it to test your story for anything that could possibly go wrong.
2. Take a break
This one seems obvious, but you might not even see it if you are totally caught up in your novel: Leave your project alone for a couple of days or weeks and do things you normally wouldn't do.
Take a hike, play the piano, do a bartending course; carve a sculpture, visit an origami exhibition, search for Bigfoot. After having your mind circle around your story all the time, any physical activity or mental change will feel refreshing.
Your body and mind will reenergize and open up to new ways of feeling and thinking.
3. Don't expect too much
When we want something really bad, we often put way too much pressure on ourselves. Then it can happen that we freeze in front of the task like a mouse in the face of a snake.
So take yourself aside for a word of clear, constructive self-talk: Reassure yourself it will be okay. No word you put on screen or paper is final. Nobody will ever see a single letter before you decide to release it into the world.
Finally, even the best writers sometimes produce garbage. Seriously, it's all good. It's just a learning process, like everything else in life.
But what do I hear from you? That it's easier said than done?
True, so here is a practical exercise: Write one page of fiction, and on purpose make it as bad as you possibly can. Is it really cringeworthy? Great, you have succeeded. Hopefully you will be less outcome-dependent now.
4. Put yourself in a creative state of mind
What exactly is a "creative state of mind"?
Your creative self is celebrating its most reckless party when you feel both relaxed and playful at the same time. Again, when you get stuck with your novel, chances are you are worrying too much about getting it right.
Start by taking the pressure off yourself like outlined above. Then go play with your kids and their building blocks to bring out your playful side. If you don't have kids, play a round of poker, tic-tac-toe or Dungeons & Dragons. Start a pillow fight. The more silly, childish and senseless you can get, the better… it will open up your carefree, curious side again. Creative people can learn a lot from how children treat the world.
Finally, start playing around with the elements of your story, just for the sake of it. Try absurd scenarios. How would that confession scene play out at a circus amongst clowns and dancing bears?
Don't expect any results, but maybe fooling around will spark your passion for your story again. You might even come across new ideas about how to move it further along.
5. Reward yourself
It's also important to nurture your creative motor. Assign yourself little rewards in advance for reaching your writing goals.
Pick something you are really looking forward to. It might be a night at the movies for a chapter you finish, or a new iPad for finishing half of your novel.
6. Visualize your success
If you undergo the long, winding process of writing a book, chances are you feel a deep desire within yourself to see the finished result.
So use your desire and visualize that very satisfying outcome: What would it feel like to look at your finished novel, to know that you finally made it happen? How awesome would it be to read the best chapter aloud to your friends, how exciting to send it out to a couple of agents and publishers and see what happens?
Visualize these scenes of sweet victory. They will give you that extra boost you need to get your project done. And if you need a practical exercise, write a letter to yourself and describe what success will look like.
Also, what fascinated you so much about your story you had to start to write it in the first place? Was it a character, an idea, a scene? Remind yourself of what you found fascinating when you started your long and winding novel. Imagine that character or idea vividly before your mind's eye.
These are a couple of tactics and tricks I found useful for my own writing. See which one of them works best for you. After all, everything you see here is just words on a screen; apply them, live them, finally stick with what really helps you and disregard the rest.
Soon enough your creative juices will be flowing again, and when you have finished your story, you will look at it and be immensely proud of yourself: You have gotten up, overcome all the obstacles and finally achieved your goal – congratulations, this is what makes you a real writer!
Alex Limberg is blogging on 'Ride the Pen' to help you boost your fiction writing. His blog dissects famous authors (works, not bodies). Download his free checklist of "44 Key Questions" to quickly detect any problems in your story and keep yourself motivated. Alex has worked as a copywriter and lived in Vienna, Los Angeles, Madrid and Hamburg.
So far, so good. Now we just need to do it.
Kristen here again. I have a couple of questions for you: Which techniques work best when you feel fatigue? What do we need to add to the list? Is it hard to be creative when everyday life is upon you? Does wearing a banana peel for a hat make you more creative? Could this fashion statement also be your reward for a finished novel?
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Adding Depth to Your Fiction—Body Language 101
Posted by Author Kristen Lamb in Writing Tips on September 16, 2016
Today regular guest writer Alex Limberg is back with a post that will make any of your dialogue scenes sound so much smoother. His piece is about body language. Raise your eyebrows and drop your chin in delight, because Alex is about to help you get under your readers' skin with your dialogue. Also, you should definitely check out his free checklist about "44 Key Questions" to make your story awesome. Now clap your hands: 3… 2… 1… here we go:
"Crossing my bridge on your flying rhinoceros? You better reconsider that," the troll said and raised his fist.
When you are reading the sentence above, you know immediately what the situation is about: The troll is threatening the other person (and a flying rhino is coming your way). And the reason you know exactly what's up is, you guessed it, the fitting description of body language. Body language is added in just four tiny words. But those four words add a lot of depth to the scene.
The physical snippet makes your reader visualize the scene; it puts the graphic image of a big, green, threatening troll fist in his head.
It also brings some nice variation to your dialogue; it's more interesting than a plain, boring dialogue tag ("the troll said" or "the troll shouted.")
It introduces character and overboiling emotion – you know it's better not to tangle with the green guy.
And finally, it adds some physicality to your story, as opposed to just "blah, blah, blah" dialogue and scenic description. It makes for well-balanced speech.
All of this is the power of using body language.
Here is a short Body Language 101 that will help you with "puppeteering" your characters' bodies:
1. Use Body Language Only From Time to Time
If you use body language too much, it will become annoying and obvious and lose its subtle qualities. Instead, only describe characters' facial expressions and postures from time to time. Make them smoothly blend in with the dialogue and the other scenic description.
Sneak your body expressions into the mix unobtrusively. Remember that you have several other options to "tag" and break up your dialogue lines:
- You could use a dialogue tag ("Let's go to the party then!" Sandra squealed.)
- You could describe what the characters are doing ("Let's go to the party then." Sandra held the invitation out to him.)
- You could describe what else is happening in the scene ("Let's go to the party then!" Suddenly the doorbell rang.)
- You could just leave the dialogue line standing alone ("Let's go to the party then.")
- You could describe a facial expression, posture or movement of the character who is speaking and put it directly before or after his dialogue line, to let the reader connect the dots himself ("Let's go to the party then." Sandra's face lit up.)
Try to vary these options, so none of them gains the upper hand and becomes annoying. That way you will get a well-balanced and structured scene that pays equal attention to dialogue, characters and descriptions.
When you insert body language, always do it in passing and don't give any extra weight to what you describe.
2. No Explanation, Just Body Language
If you want to look really stupid, you could write like this:
"So surely you can tell me where you were on the evening of the twenty-second of October?" George asked with eyes narrowed to slits, because he felt very suspicious about Blake's story.
This example does both, showing and telling. That's one too many, and the too many one is the telling part! Cut out "because he felt very suspicious about Blake's story."
When you write like this, you also take your reader for stupid. Let her connect the dots herself – if she has followed the story, she will know why Georg's eyes are pressed to slits.
Try it like this:
"So surely you can tell me where you were on the evening of the twenty-second of October?" George asked, his eyes narrowed to slits.
That's much better, now we don't even have to go inside George's head artificially, we can just describe objectively what the reader sees.
Whenever possible, don't name the feeling, but just show the body language. And definitely never put both of them (body language and description of feeling) together in the same sentence.
Showing, not telling is sometimes not easy to do when you are caught up in the writing process. That's why I created my free checklist about "44 Test Questions" to make your story great. It's a comprehensive, no-holds-barred list about what I learned makes a good story, and you can download it right away.
3. Have a Very Clear Idea of What Your Character Is Feeling
Take a look at this ambitious description of body language:
"Randy held one hand in his other behind his back, then suddenly stroked his throat while he was leaning towards Linda."
What's happening here? Nobody knows, Randy's behavior is too much. As far as we are aware, it doesn't make any sense. It seems like the writer pays attention to the undertones so much, that in the end he is not really saying anything.
Don't write so cryptically that nobody can understand where your character is coming from. A simple description of one piece of body language at a time is absolutely enough. You, the author, always have to be clear about what your characters are feeling. And their body language has to match those feelings.
4. Follow Your Intuition When Describing Body Language
But where can you take an accurate description for flattery or envy from?
Your best bet is to take it from yourself. Imagine you feel flattered by an enormous compliment, like the best compliment ever. What expressions would your face, your arms, your body be making? Totally immerse yourself in the feeling like a good actor, and see which body expression fits.
Remember the last time you felt really envious about somebody? Use that memory to immerse yourself in the feeling for a second and ask yourself how your body would react.
Reading a book about body language is also an excellent idea. The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan and Barbara Pease is a very systematic and comprehensive guide to everything you ever wanted to know about body language. I recommend it whole-heartedly.
5. Several Types of Body Language You Can Use
Our bodies have several ways of giving our secrets away. Here are some examples and a bit of inspiration on what's possible:
- Facial expressions: The human face is an endless source of expressions. Think of raised eyebrows, tightly pressed lips, blown up cheeks, wrinkled noses, wide eyes, frowned brows, poked out tongues, widened nostrils… most feelings show through several features
- Body postures: Crossed arms, legs wide apart, foot put forward, leaned back upper body, spread elbows, locked ankles, body pointing away, tilted head… all of these have something very distinctive to say
- Body movements: Adjusting tie, nibbling on temple of glasses, whipping foot, raising hand with palm toward opposite, flicking the hair, putting hands in pockets, grabbing the other's upper arm, scratching one's nose… do you know what all of these mean?
Equipped with all of this knowledge, you now have an extremely elegant and effective way to describe what's really happening under the surface of your scene. You can now go fill your characters with overflowing emotions and life.
Once you manage to describe how their feelings subconsciously pour out of them, your figures will automatically take on a life of their own and feel like they were standing next to you in your living room. And your reader won't be able to keep from loving or loathing them whole-heartedly.
Alex Limberg is blogging on 'Ride the Pen' to help you boost your fiction writing. His blog dissects famous authors (works, not bodies). Polish your dialogue, plot, characters and much more to greatness with his free checklist about "44 Key Questions" to test your story. Shakespeare is jealous. Alex has worked as a copywriter and in the movie industry. He has lived in Vienna, Los Angeles, Madrid and Hamburg.
Thumbs up, Alex!
It's Kristen again, and I'm back to ask you: Are you guilty of completely neglecting body language in your stories? Do you have a favorite body part or movement to describe? Aren't knees so much cooler than elbows? Do you ever forget to jump up and down when you are happy?
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Using Dialogue to Create Dimensional Characters
Posted by Author Kristen Lamb in Writing Tips on September 14, 2015
So last time we talked about the basics in regards to dialogue and once we grasp the fundamentals—like proper punctuation—we then can focus more on elements of style. How we deliver the dialogue.
We can tell a lot about people by the way they speak. What people say or don't say speaks volumes. As the writer, it is our job to understand our characters and to know who they are and how they think. We have to master the art of empathy. If we don't, our dialogue will all sound like US talking. Writing, in many ways is a lot like method acting. We have to crawl inside the head and the psyche of our cast.
Not as easy as it might seem.
Dialogue done well is the stuff of legends though. Think of favorite movies. Why do we love them SO much? Very often…dialogue.
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Social Roles—The Broad Strokes
Whether we like it or not, most of us will fall into some kind of social category with the way we speak. The way we speak will tell others a lot about who we are, our job, our background, level of education and even where we exist socially.
Don't believe me?
How many of you were once young and wild and free and swore you would never be like your parents? Then one day you heard, "Because I said so, that's why" fly out of your mouth?
"Why can't you just do it the first time?"
"I didn't ask you if you wanted to do it."
I am bee-bopping along and suddenly hear my mother….
"Well, Spawn, when the mind is stupid, the body suffers."
Shoot. Me. Now.
No matter how much we try, we are helpless in the face of mimesis. But, that isn't such a bad thing. This actually makes it easier to do what we do. Since we've been around moms, we know how they talk. We can emulate the lingo. We know how teenagers, grandparents, grouchy neighbors, picky librarians, and con-artist family members all talk.
Through these "roles" we gain the broad strokes of what a character should "sound" like. This will help our characters ring true in the mental ear of the reader. There is nothing wrong with having characters who fit into a tidy box. They can still be interesting and unique even in that role.
Yes, I am a mother and I say all the stuff I swore I would never say.
No is just a part of life.
I also play XBox with Spawn and say things like, "Burst-fire! Conserve your ammo!" "You can't kill a zombie like that!"
Thus, even though a lot of what I say would be very prototypical "Mom Talk" there are elements of how I speak that make me unique within that subset. Not all moms shoot for sport, practice Jiu Jistu and randomly quote Monty Python. Spawn's mom, however, DOES.
But this is is when we get into the…
Character—The Fine Strokes
Moms say things many other moms say, but each mom is unique. That is the case with most characters. If we don't take time to really think about who each character IS, we can run the risk of a character sounding like a stock character.
Recently I read a YA and only finished it because I paid full-price. But the biggest reason I had a tough time getting into the story was that all the characters were blasé.
Each character talked like a stereotype. The broad strokes were there, but there was no nuance. Thus, I was left with a cast of characters who were utterly forgettable.
How do we get fine strokes?
Can we buy some on eBay?
This is a tough one to answer. The fine strokes can take years to master. We have to learn to be excellent listeners. We have to learn how to look beyond what people are saying. We have to become masters of empathy and we must study people. Beyond this, though, what is it that transforms a plot-puppet into a 3-D person?
I believe it is in our idiosyncrasies and our contradictions.
An Idiosyncrasy is a peculiarity that is specific to one person. For instance, last time I mentioned the no-no about having every character speak in full sentences. Most of us don't speak in full sentences so it rings untrue when everyone is using full sentences. BUT, some people DO speak in full sentences. That would be an idiosyncrasy and it's one that is used regularly to convey highly intellectual characters—Ie. Dr. Sheldon Cooper.
A character who is foreign might not use contractions. A character who has OCD might always repeat verbs. A character who is advanced in years might never answer directly, but always answer in colorful parables.
I wrote a really funny character who constantly used malapropisms.
You just don't cheat on your wife. When you get hitched, you promise to be faithful. You know. Monotonous.
We all have sayings and filler words that are unique to each of us. But adding these subtle details, now we have characters who are far more dimensional.
So we might have a mother who is saying all kinds of mom-like things…only she is unique because she is bad about smashing words together and speaks in hyperbole.
Eat your vegetables and don't correct me. It's very condensending.
I know what I said, Mr. Smarty Pants. Hurry up before I trade you to the Jones family for a puppy. At least the puppy would have some respect.
Add Some Layers
Remember that most humans are actually a unique blending of experience and roles. Yes, we might have a mom who is talking like a mom, but what else is she? A mom who is a Japanese violinist would probably talk differently than a mom who is a cop and grew up in Brooklyn.
Culture impacts a lot more than we might realize. I was born in Texas, but reared by a Yankee mom who is very direct and no-nonsense. I have run into all kinds of trouble with Southern women who feel I am rude. Conversely, I get short with Southern women because I am aging and don't have time for all the niceties.
My roommate in college was from Georgia and we went round and round and round. She'd say:
Roommate: Kristen, do you think the trash needs to go out?
Me: Nah, looks good to me *keeps going*
Because her culture dictated it was more polite to hint and suggest? I missed most of what she wanted because I was always direct. If I wanted someone to take out the trash, I simply asked.
But here is an extra lesson in dialogue. Just from this example, can you see how conflict can arise simply from expectations? She believed she was asking me to take out the trash and believed that I was ignoring her. Conversely, I couldn't figure out why she wanted an opinion on the state of our garbage so often. Why didn't she just ask me to take it out? I would have happily obliged.
How does your character feel about him/herself? A low self-image might make a person a people pleaser. Maybe she is always agreeing with everyone and terrified to have her own opinion. Maybe the character talks too much, tries too hard, never asks about others.
If a character is selfish, he might brag all the time, or have to outdo everyone else in the conversation.
That's great you caught a fish, but you were on a lake. Now go deep sea fishing. That's real fishing. I once struggled with a fifteen foot shark for three hours….
Maybe the character is always interrupting others. Maybe the character uses profanity or quotes bible verses all the time. Or both.
Sometimes we can use dialogue to make contrasts. Contrasts are very interesting and say a lot about our character. A great example would be Elmore Leonard's character Boyd Crowder (refer to television series Justified). Now, Boyd fits into a broad-stroke category of a hillbilly. He has a deep southern accent, works with his hands, drives a ratty truck, wears boots, and drinks like a fish.
But what makes Boyd a fascinating character study, especially for dialogue, is he is unexpected. He is a fascinating contrast. Though he is a redneck (and plays this up for his own ends) he uses a twenty-dollar word when a ten cent one would do. He speaks very colorfully. If you ask him the time, he will tell you how to build a watch.
Not only is his speech idiosyncratic, but it is a very unique contrast. One usually doesn't expect a hillbilly to use words most of us would have to look up in a thesaurus.
Show Don't Tell
Dialogue is HUGE, HUGE, HUGE for Show Don't Tell.
Instead of telling us a character is a certain way, SHOW us by how she talks and what she says.
A gossip.
"Now, for the record, I've never seen her drink, but she always looks so tired. My brother-in-law always looked that way because he was throwing them back in secret."
A self-involved jerk.
"Sure, Babe. After I meet with my client, how about I meet you for that cute little college thing you're doing. What was it again? Art history?"
Y'all get the gist. Now go have fun with it!
All of this is to say that dialogue is one of the most powerful tools for showing who a character is, who they are hiding and maybe even who they could be with a little help from us (Writer-God). Next time, we will dig a bit deeper into dialogue. Who knew there was so much to this? What are your thoughts? What other suggestions do you have for authentic-sounding dialogue?
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Lessons From Oleander–Beware of Premature Editing
Posted by Author Kristen Lamb in Writing on January 28, 2013
I love to garden, but I am terrible at reading instructions, which means I am not going to read a How To book or gardening blogs, because I already have enough to read and this would steal time from my great joy…digging in the dirt. This means that, over the years, I've learned a lot through trial and error.
Code for : Killing Stuff
Three years ago, we bought our first home. We got a sweet deal on it, but it needed work. The yard was little more than mowed field. I couldn't wait to get in and pretty it up. I slaved for hours in triple-digit Texas heat digging holes and clearing land for gardens. I'd always loved oleander and when I found them on sale at the local nursery, I was ecstatic. Normally, oleander this size were $50 and $60 but I got each for less than $20. I planted one on each corner of the house and dreamed of how beautiful they'd be when they matured.
Then we had the most freakish, freezing winter in Texas history. I'd never even seen snow before and suddenly we were buried in eight inches of it.
The Canadians can all stop laughing now. You guys have things like PLOWS, SNOW SHOVELS, SNOW TIRES…and COATS.
Anyway, the oleanders that seemed to be doing okay during the mild fall were obliterated. When early spring came, I cleaned up all the dead stuff and dug out all the oleanders and threw them away. All except one because I ran out of energy.
Much to my horror, guess what sprouted once it got warmer?
My last remaining oleander.
To this day, I can't look at that oleander without grieving the other four. I feel so foolish. What if I'd just been patient? What if I hadn't been so quick to judge what was "dead"?
This is what premature editing can do to our story. When we start hacking away and digging stuff out too soon, we have no idea what treasures we might be tossing in the garbage. Never underestimate what your subconscious is capable of doing. Our subconscious mind is planting seeds along the way that can eventually sprout into ideas better than we imagined. Editing too soon can ruin that magic and toss it in a Hefty bag, just like my poor oleanders.
Tips to Avoid Premature Editing
Fast Draft
Candace Havens teaches a method called Fast Draft. You write the entire novel in a matter of two weeks. No stopping, no looking back. No editing. This is my preferred method, because I am notorious for editing stuff to death.
Limited Edit
Allow yourself to correct typos, punctuation and grammar ONLY. Anything else that you believe needs to be changed, make a note of it in a different color. Then keep moving forward.
I know this isn't for everyone. Every time I talk about this topic, I get a half a dozen comments from people who just can't bear to not edit. Of course, they generally don't have finished books, either.
In the end, these are tips. You have to find what works for you. But I would at least give these methods a try. You can always slay the adverbs later ;).
What are your thoughts? Have you ever gotten overzealous and edited the heart out of a story and later regretted it? What tactics do you use to keep from editing too soon? Does editing early not bother you?
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And also, winners have a limited time to claim the prize, because what's happening is there are actually quite a few people who never claim the critique, so I never know if the spam folder ate it or to look for it and then people miss out. I will also give my corporate e-mail to insure we connect and I will only have a week to return the 20 page edit.
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Posted by Author Kristen Lamb in Writing on April 25, 2012
Earlier this month we talked about "writing voice." All agents want to find it and all new writers want to know what the heck it is. I did my best to educate you guys on voice, but frankly, compared to my writer heroes, I am a mere neophyte. I was at least smart enough to know what I didn't know and to look to those who could lead the way. Les Edgerton has been one of my writing heroes for a LONG time and, frankly, having him here is making me a wee dizzy. I haven't been this fan girl since I kidnapped James Rollins in my creepy interview van.
Unfortunately for me, did you see Les's picture? Does this look like a dude who would fall for the FREE CANDY schtick? Yeah, I didn't think so either. So, rather than smearing a $50 Barnes and Noble Gift Card with honey and sprinkles and hoping to catch the correct writer, I just went ahead and asked.
Boring, but effective. And come on! Les needed to be here, because, how can we talk about writing voice without a visit from the master?
Take it away Les!
Hello fellow WANAs!
Thank you so much for allowing me to appear on your blog, Kristen. I follow it religiously and am amazed at both the wonderful info you impart and the collegiality of the people who gather here. This is a signal honor and I'm stoked to be here!
You asked me to talk about my book on the writer's voice, FINDING YOUR VOICE: How to Put Personality in Your Writing, and I thought what might be valuable would be to include a chapter from that book. Hope your readers agree. We just made it available as an ebook and you can check it out on Amazon.
I'm very proud of this book, Kristen. It was the first of my writer's craft books and over the years I've received lots of emails and letters from writers who tell me it's helped inform their own writing and that's just plain gratifying. It's why we all write, right? To make a difference in others' lives.
BTW, if you folks enjoy the selection I'm providing, please consider helping me out with my own writing. My latest novel, a psychological thriller titled THE BITCH is one of six nominees for the Spinetingler Magazine Best Novel award in the Legends category. This is a huge honor just to be nominated and if somehow I'd win, well, I'd be speechless… (For those who know me, you know that's almost impossible to comprehend…)
I need to explain that the title isn't a pejorative title towards women, nor is it a term for a female dog, but is what outlaws and criminals call the "three-strikes-and-you're-out" ha-bitch-ual criminal statute. To vote for it, just go to the link, scroll down to the "Best Novel" in the Legends category and click on my book. Then, just scroll to the end and enter it. And… thank you!
I hope the stuff on voice below proves helpful in your own writing!
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.—RALPH WALDO EMERSON
This, then, is what it's all about, finally.
Putting your personality into your prose. Truly, the "secret" to getting published.
William Zinsser stresses this in his best-selling writer's craft book, On Writing Well, when he writes: "I wrote one book about baseball and one about jazz. But it never occurred to me to write one of them in sports English and the other in jazz English. I tried to write them both in the best English I could, in my usual style.
Though the books were widely different in subject, I wanted readers to know that they were hearing from the same person. It was my book about baseball and my book about jazz. Other writers would write their book. My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you."
If your finished novel, short story, article, poem, personal memoir, bio of the latest corrupt politician or outstanding statesperson—whatever—reads as if written by another person . . . then it was.
You need to seize it and make it the work only you could possibly have written.
First off, however, you need to determine if your voice has, indeed, been camouflaged.
There are at least three ways to tell if this is so.
Are the Word Choices, Sentence Usages, and Phrases Employed Yours?
The first "litmus test" is to check the language in the piece itself.
Author Jules Renard said, "If the word arse is read in a sentence, no matter how beautiful the sentence, the reader will react only to that word." He's not singling out the "olde English" noun except as an example of the sort of word a writer shouldn't use unless it's organic to him and is natural to the context in which it's used. The kind of word that draws attention to itself, at the expense of the fìctive dream we struggle so mightily to create for the reader.
Look for those kinds of examples in your copy, and instead of reaching automatically for your thesaurus, try a different approach to coming up with a better word.
One way to do this is by clustering. Write the word that needs replaced in the center of a blank sheet of paper. Draw a short, straight line out from the word, and quickly jot down the next word that pops into your mind. Do the same with that word.
Do this for at least seven to eight words, then sit back and look at what you have. Oftentimes, the word you need emerges. If that doesn't work, at least change any such word that drastically calls attention to itself to something less intruding and attention-gathering.
As Anthony Burgess says, "People don't like using dictionaries when they're reading mere novels."
Jane Burroway, in her seminal writing text, Writing Fiction:A Guide to Narrative Craft, says much the same thing, but expands the advice even more: "When you are carried away with the purple of your prose,the music of your alliteration, the hilarity of your wit, the profundity of your insights, then the chances are that you are having a better time writing than the reader will have reading. No reader will forgive you, and no reader should. Just tell the story. The style will follow of itself if you just tell the story."
Check your text for overt evidence of a writer at work. Whenever the reader becomes aware someone is writing the piece—whether it be fiction or nonfìction—then the "fictive dream" (which applies to nonfìction as well) is interrupted and you've lost your reader at least briefly, if not permanently.
You've created a speed bump, at the minimum.
Five Percent
If you can identify more than 5 percent of the language you used as being essentially foreign to your normal usage, then you're not employing your own personality on the page. That's just too many words alien to your vocabulary and it will show up as forced and unnatural. In fact, 5 percent is just about the upper limit. Go back and substitute more of your own language.
Sentence Structure
The structure you give your sentences can show you whether or not you're solidly within your voice.
If you're using complete sentences, you're probably not writing in your natural voice.
In a recent Neighborhood Connections class (local, adult-ed class) I taught, a woman who wrote otherwise wonderful prose had a sticking point with sentence fragments. She simply could not bring herself to write anything less than a complete sentence. She confessed that every time she did, the image of her seventh-grade English teacher loomed large on the screen of her mental Sony.
The result was prose, that, while writ with grace, beauty and interest, nevertheless, was being strangled with formality. She was such a good writer that she was able to imbue her "Tom Wolfeian beige voice" with energy, but it wasn't until she was able to force herself to write sentence fragments within the text that her stories really began to sparkle.
She "thought" in sentence fragments at the appropriate places in her writing, but she had developed the habit of editing them as she wrote to render them complete units, with subject, predicate, and all that stuff. It took almost the entire six weeks of the class for her to work through her problem, but once she overcame that inhibition, the traces were thrown off, and she confessed, after her last class, that she felt "wildly free" for the first time in her writing life. She'd been so "conditioned" that at first she couldn't even bring herself to use contractions in her character's dialogue!
The trick to writing well? Write simply; write clearly. Eschew flowery language.
Aim for the same kind of clarity-bullseye in your own writing, whether it be a lean or lush style. The kind of writing that when the nonwriter or casual reader reads it, thinks, "Man! This writing stuff looks easy; I could do this¦"
Look at other writers you admire and see if the simpleness of their language—whether lush or spare or somewhere in-between—isn't one of their strengths, too.
When rereading your work and you come to a part that has been gussied up by the over-baroqueness of your language, try rewriting it with only one thing in mind—to make it as clear to the reader as a day in Santa Monica after a Santa Ana wind has blown through.
If your style requires ten words to do that and another's style uses four, that's all right. Just don't use twenty words if ten do the job, or eight, if your own style is comfortable with six. Compare the initial version and the rewritten one, and see which one you like the best. Better, have someone else read them and tell you which one they prefer.
Don't stick a Rolls-Royce hood ornament on your Chevy Lumina and try to fool people!
Second Litmus Test—Get Feedback From Others
Perhaps one of the best ways to cull out those parts of your writing where you've strayed from your own trés-cool voice is to solicit the opinions of others. If you belong to a writing group, ask your fellow writers if you can read your material to them, requesting they inform you which, if any, parts "don't sound like you." Mark through those sentences and sections with a marker (I'd suggest yellow instead of black), and then later, go through them to see if you agree. If the language has departed from the rest of the piece, you know it needs to be rewritten until it blends with the rest.
Read your material aloud, and ask yourself if you'd like to be locked up in a room with the person who wrote this and listen to the sound of that voice for several hours at a time. If not, then you're probably not putting your own personality into your prose as much as you should be. After all, we like our voices when we're ourselves, don't we? We hardly ever tell ourselves to "shut up!" when we're being natural.
Tweety in the Coal Mine
Way back when, coal miners would carry a canary in a cage down into the bowels of the mine with them. The purpose of the canary was to let the miners know if deadly gasses were present so they could get the hell out before they keeled over. They kept a close watch on Tweety, and if he fell over dead (with those little Xs for eyes), they hiked as fast as they could to the surface.
That's what you need. A canary to let you know if the "gas" of your prose has become deadly. Hopefully, your friend or writing group won't fall over onto the floor with those little Xs where their orbs used to be, but they should be able to sniff where your writing has become stifling and beige.
Beige has an odor somewhat like skunk cabbage does when you step into a patch of it. Deodorize your prose until it smells sweet—like you!
Be Alert to Critic Nag in the Room . . .
The third part of the litmus test to see if you're camouflaging your natural voice is to check the room periodically to see if Critic Nag has crept in under the doorsill or through an open window. He's usually invisible, so the only way to spot them is to read what you've written to see if he was typing while your mind spaced, as it does from time to time with us writer-types.
A good place to look for evidence that he's lurking somewhere in the room is in your character's dialogue. If you find your characters never use contractions in their speech, for instance, that's a solid clue that Critic Nag is sitting over in the corner, smirking evilly at you.
If your characters always use complete sentences, wouldn't dream of using a contraction, without fail use the correct words or word combinations like "give me" instead of "gimme," then Critic Nag has probably snuck into the room with you.
Look for Critic Nag's whisper in your ear when you're writing emotional scenes. He'll try to encourage you to use lurid language and not trust your own writing ability to convey the emotion. He's a crafty little imp!
When you're writing those scenes, keep in mind the advice of Philip Gerard in his excellent book Writing a Book That Makes a Difference, where he says: "Flatten the language. The hotter the action, the cooler you want the language, to a point."
You need to choose the word that fits the situation on the page you're trying to create—whether that be description or the business or action of a scene, but you also need to choose the word that fits you comfortably. It has to carry the intent, but it also has to reflect you and your emotions. That's the only way it will ring true and be unmistakably yours.
Another clue that will tell you ol' Critic Nag has been around is if your passages of description have been overwritten and in a too-flowery style. If you read passages full of window-pane, static description, instead of active, page-turning description. This is what one of those many fiends who compose Critic Nag urged you to do way back when. He's in the room!
He's also been around if you begin to reread your stuff and unfamiliar words jump out at you. You know, those words you've never once used in conversation and look newly-purchased from that sale you visited on Dictionary/Thesaurus.com. (Or, found on eBay, most likely.)
To Reiterate . . .
In summary, there are three basic ways to seize control of your material and make it your own:
1. Check the language you've used in the piece.
Mark the words that leap up at you from the page that clearly aren't yours and come up with choices from your vocabulary.
2. Have others read your material and tell you which parts aren't "you."
Pick folks who know you well. Don't use them to tell you if the writing is "good" or make that kind of quality judgment; instead, simply ask them to let you know which passages "don't sound like you." That's all you need—someone to point out where you departed from yourself.
3. Seek out and banish Critic Nag from the room.
Just always remember: Don't let others rent space in your head! Especially Critic Nag . . .
THANK YOU LES!!!!! Many of you who follow this blog already know and LOVE Les because I talk about him all the time and make you buy his books :D. So please, for those of you who have loved Les's work, please go vote for him in the Spinetingler Award. I know you guys have a ton of books, but you have until the end of April to read and vote for The Bitch… *giggle*.Just go to the link. I hope you guys can show some WANA support for a writer who has done so much to help use newbies grow into trained professionals.
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Note–I've been having technical problems lately and am in the middle of rebuilding my web site. Also, my toddler has had an allergic reaction to something and he has been home sick, which is slowing me down.
I will just have to announce last week's winner on Monday. Sorry, icky sick baby has made it impossible to tally all the comment entries from last week (especially since I had the rare privilege of being Freshly Pressed, which means the comments EXPLODED).
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Set up a freshwater tank and include a pH monitor. Ten gallons is the minimum tank size for this species but a tank 20 gallons or larger works better and is easier to maintain.
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Maintain a temperature of around 18.3 to 21.1 degrees Celsius and a pH of about 6.2 to 7. The shrimp survive and can breed at higher temperatures but this range should mean more of their offspring survive.
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Introduce several male and several female shrimp. Crystal reds are a little difficult to sex, but if you have enough individuals a mistake won't matter. In comparison to males of the same age, females are larger and have longer, wider tails.
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Feed the shrimp daily on a high quality food for bottom feeders supplemented with well-boiled vegetables such as lettuce. The shrimp will also find some algae and scraps in the tank but probably not enough to sustain them. As a rough guide, feed as much as the shrimp can eat within a couple of hours but no more. Leftover food pollutes the water. Skipping the occasional feed won't cause problems.
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Conduct weekly partial water changes. Test nitrate and phosphate levels weekly. Both should be close to zero. Nitrate in particular causes problems to these shrimp if it rises. Increase the water changes if either rises.
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@Charlie74 good luck today and thinking of you
Good morning ladies ive lost track of some things happening but im still thinking of you all
BlondeinBrisvegas (19-11-2015),Blossom74 (19-11-2015),Charlie74 (19-11-2015),Summer (19-11-2015)
Sue77 I used luveris and other types of LH in my various cycles to help my egg quality and it certainly seemed to help a lot. Also Down regulation produced much better results for me...in terms of egg numbers anyway. I'm also trying intralipids this time. I should be picking my drugs up on saturday/ sunday depending on AF arriving on time . So just a couple of days behind you?
Good luck @Charlie74!
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Good luck today Charlie .,
Afm, redundancies are being announced today. We've lost one person so far (my only offsider) and more to come. I'm home hoping my boss doesn't ring me...
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Wowsers, 15 eggs! You bl@@dy legend @Charlie74!
A massive congratulations to you love
Fertilisation goes well and you get some lovely embies out of that lot.
Summer (19-11-2015)
Like @BIB said, I have a good feeling for you too Julie. I don't reckon you'll be getting a call today.
Sorry about your offsider though. Her redundancy has more than likely saved you, but it will probably impact on your job in the form of more bl@@dy work on your plate.
Still, at least you will have a job to go to!
Keeping my fingers crossed for you love.
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How you travelling love?
Refresh my memory - where are you up to now hon? I presume you have a plan.
My plan at present is to just enjoy the Christmas period and have a bit of a rest.
Huge congrats @Charlie74, great haul!
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Hmmm. Still no AF.
And no signs she is imminent.
Wonder when that will all kick in again?
Am currently 4 weeks and 3 days post D&C.
Not that I'm excited about getting it, but I would hope it would come back eventually.....
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