Comments on: Confidence in my voice http://www.getmewriting.com/motivation/confidence-in-my-voice/ A blog for creative writers Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:43:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matt http://www.getmewriting.com/motivation/confidence-in-my-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-592 Matt Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:42:46 +0000 http://www.getmewriting.com/?p=213#comment-592 Interesting thing about description - Mr. Stephen King says don't bother describing your characters' appearance in great detail. And, thinking about it (and paying more attention to this as I read), very few authors do. I think a couple of details is enough for someone to make some kind of image. Maybe one very specific thing that also helps to tell something about their personality, too. That novel I was writing didn't go anywhere by the way. My ideas for it didn't hang together very well at all. Maybe I'll come back to it later, but it will be a rewrite for the most part methinks. In the mean time, I'm doing other stuff. Interesting thing about description – Mr. Stephen King says don’t bother describing your characters’ appearance in great detail. And, thinking about it (and paying more attention to this as I read), very few authors do. I think a couple of details is enough for someone to make some kind of image. Maybe one very specific thing that also helps to tell something about their personality, too.

That novel I was writing didn’t go anywhere by the way. My ideas for it didn’t hang together very well at all. Maybe I’ll come back to it later, but it will be a rewrite for the most part methinks. In the mean time, I’m doing other stuff.

]]> By: Craig http://www.getmewriting.com/motivation/confidence-in-my-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-584 Craig Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:10:07 +0000 http://www.getmewriting.com/?p=213#comment-584 I have this very same problem with the voice. I often wonder if the actual text gets through what I see so clearly in my head. Oftentimes, i dont think it does, since I never describe my characters. But then, I never really see my characters. I watch them, and I know them, but I never really have faces to them. Hmm, maybe this is good for another post. Aside from that, I know what you mean about the dry writing. I'm currently reading Risk, by Dan Gardner. Its all about how dangerous the things that we perceive as dangerous actually are. I was well into ot for the first two chapters, but as with most non fiction books (especially ones about statisitics), it does get dry and somewhat repetative. On a more positive note, I have always found your style of writing very engaging. I remember the book you started in university, that you workshopped in some of our classes, and I was truely interested to see where that went. (Where did it go?) I have this very same problem with the voice. I often wonder if the actual text gets through what I see so clearly in my head. Oftentimes, i dont think it does, since I never describe my characters. But then, I never really see my characters. I watch them, and I know them, but I never really have faces to them. Hmm, maybe this is good for another post.

Aside from that, I know what you mean about the dry writing. I’m currently reading Risk, by Dan Gardner. Its all about how dangerous the things that we perceive as dangerous actually are. I was well into ot for the first two chapters, but as with most non fiction books (especially ones about statisitics), it does get dry and somewhat repetative.

On a more positive note, I have always found your style of writing very engaging. I remember the book you started in university, that you workshopped in some of our classes, and I was truely interested to see where that went. (Where did it go?)

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