Writing Techniques – Narrate, Exaggerate and Characterise Good writers don’t stop the story while describing. Snapchat is here to stay. Twitter, Facebook and What’sApp are immediate and quick. Carpe Diem Writer Dear. We want it all and we want it now. Immediate scenes take place before the eyes and are not recounted to a patient audience. We’re still […]
Writing Techniques
‘Dating is subtext, marriage is text’ . . .
HOOK THE READER. WRITE SUBTEXT TO ENRICH CHARACTER AND PLOT. I’m still hooked on Dr. Linda Seger’s book: Writing Subtext. In it she quotes psychotherapist and script consultant Dr. Rachel Ballon as saying, ‘Dating is subtext, marriage is text.’ When you think of the first date, of guessing what he/she really thinks, about being on […]