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Writing Speculative Fiction: Surround the Unbelievable with the Believable
Making Make-Believe Believable: The first technique to help your reader suspend disbelief is to surround the unbelievable with the believable. If you are new to this blog, I’ve been writing a series of posts about writing speculative fiction, including fantasy, … Continue reading
Suspending Disbelief: Understanding the Reader’s Reality Filters
Making Make-Believe Believable: Before you can get your reader to suspend his or her disbelief, you must have a good understanding of your target audience’s reality filters. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, most of us … Continue reading
Understanding the Suspension of Disbelief
Making Make-Believe Believable: Getting your reader to suspend his or her disbelief is key to writing make-believe. First you have to understand the reader’s expectations. One of my favorite scenes in Peter Pan is the scene where Tinkerbell almost dies … Continue reading
The Magic of a Good Story
Making Make-Believe Believable: A story’s true magic has nothing to do with fantasy elements. Don’t neglect the essence of storytelling simply because you write speculative fiction. First and foremost, it’s important to understand why people read fiction. Readers want to … Continue reading
New Writing Series: Making Make-Believe Believable
How to write fantasy, science-fiction, steampunk, comic book heroes, paranormal, and horror in such a way that even “muggles” will want to read it. I’m going to begin an extensive writing series called Making Make-Believe Believable. My goal is to … Continue reading
The Writer’s Descriptive Techniques: #3—Group Related Details Together
Increase the power of your description by keeping related details together. I’m writing a series of blog posts on description techniques. Here are my last two: The Writer’s Descriptive Techniques: #1—Create a Main Impression The Writer’s Descriptive Techniques: #2—Choose Details … Continue reading
The Writer’s Descriptive Techniques: #2—Choose Details that Enhance Your Main Impression
Using descriptive language that affects your readers’ emotions will enhance the main impression you want your readers to take from each scene. We’re focusing on description for the next few posts. Yesterday, I wrote about what it means to create … Continue reading
The Writer’s Descriptive Techniques: #1—Create a Main Impression
Creating a main impression in your scenes will manipulate your readers’ minds into filling in the unwritten details for you. I have been out of town and away from consistent wifi for over three weeks while I went on vacation … Continue reading
The Writing Process: Example of a Final Draft
If you are new to this website, I have been writing a series of blog posts about the writing process. During one of those posts, I gave an example of a pre-draft using one of my earlier drafts of … Continue reading
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