Comments on: Specifics, Please! http://mtsneffelspress.com/2009/01/31/specifics-please/ Giving voice to authors on the Colorado Western Slope Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:55:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: susan palmer http://mtsneffelspress.com/2009/01/31/specifics-please/comment-page-1/#comment-129 susan palmer Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:19:46 +0000 http://mtsneffelspress.com/?p=497#comment-129 I agree with both of you. Short stories require almost a poet's touch to capture a vivid description by using just the right word in a sentence. Sped rather than ran. Sped reveals intention. Ran could have any number of motives. Smirked rather than smiled. you know all this. I have read novels that go on too long with too much description just when I was expecting the villain to strike, and other novels with so little description a whole week passed in one sentence and the character's motives were lost or bypassed. Thus the value of a critique group, an editor, or a friend who will read and rant. I agree with both of you. Short stories require almost a poet’s touch to capture a vivid description by using just the right word in a sentence. Sped rather than ran. Sped reveals intention. Ran could have any number of motives. Smirked rather than smiled. you know all this.

I have read novels that go on too long with too much description just when I was expecting the villain to strike, and other novels with so little description a whole week passed in one sentence and the character’s motives were lost or bypassed.

Thus the value of a critique group, an editor, or a friend who will read and rant.

]]> By: Nick http://mtsneffelspress.com/2009/01/31/specifics-please/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Nick Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:43:57 +0000 http://mtsneffelspress.com/?p=497#comment-119 Thanks for the great comment Dave. I'm hoping this is one of your posts, since this is where your comment leads to. I don't know if I would consider myself an expert (or if I ever will) as there is always room for improvement. Since I chose this post, I'll add my opinion on your argument. Great details are nice and I do like your writing style, but be wary of verbosity. Attacking the issue as a short story writer/journalist my first instinct is always to say the most with the least. I always try and pick and chose my details and let them tell as much information as they can. Anyone can be taught grammar, but I think style is the hardest part of writing to master. Good luck, your site looks great. Thanks for the great comment Dave. I’m hoping this is one of your posts, since this is where your comment leads to. I don’t know if I would consider myself an expert (or if I ever will) as there is always room for improvement.

Since I chose this post, I’ll add my opinion on your argument. Great details are nice and I do like your writing style, but be wary of verbosity. Attacking the issue as a short story writer/journalist my first instinct is always to say the most with the least. I always try and pick and chose my details and let them tell as much information as they can. Anyone can be taught grammar, but I think style is the hardest part of writing to master.

Good luck, your site looks great.

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