CHAPTER3
Dynamic Details
In This Chapter
- Writing concrete details
- Creating significant details
- Judging the quality of your details
- Ways to make your writing seem lifelike
As the cliché maintains, “The devil is in the details.” The right mix of them can be the difference between a scene nearly diabolical in how unforgettable it is and one that might be found in any number of hundreds of long-obscure, out-of-print books—bland, vague, forgotten.
Details ground the reader in a scene—in an era, a locale, a tone or feel. They create instant identifiers and evoke memories and feelings in the reader that then connect the reader to the narrative. One ...
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