09-11-2012, 09:15 PM
Write in a manner/fashion that turns these 'weaknesses' into a strength.
If you are writing in the style of a Medieval speech, then make certain the story is taking place in a Medieval Setting...
As for openings, I tend to favor just dropping the reader into a scene as if the story has already been going on. This is more like real life, after all life on earth has been going on for a few billion years and we are all being dropped down right in the middle of the action.
I do tend to write (for myself) character biographies and 'historical notes' where I cover all of those details in a novella. Its just for me - no one else will see it.
It gives me a frame of reference where I can then pull bits and pieces from this history, from the character's previous life and slowly string together the mystery of the past.
I also like 'prolog' A couple three paragraphs to bring the reader to speed about general things.
A good example is the opening of Star Wars where the screen rolls 'Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away'... Then suddenly we are seeing an Imperial ship chasing and firing on a passenger ship. From that point on bits and pieces from the past are being strung together, secondary and tertiary stories to the main story.
The reader starts to care, because they want to know more about Ben Kan-obi, who this princess is and who that kid Luke is....
If you are writing in the style of a Medieval speech, then make certain the story is taking place in a Medieval Setting...
As for openings, I tend to favor just dropping the reader into a scene as if the story has already been going on. This is more like real life, after all life on earth has been going on for a few billion years and we are all being dropped down right in the middle of the action.
I do tend to write (for myself) character biographies and 'historical notes' where I cover all of those details in a novella. Its just for me - no one else will see it.
It gives me a frame of reference where I can then pull bits and pieces from this history, from the character's previous life and slowly string together the mystery of the past.
I also like 'prolog' A couple three paragraphs to bring the reader to speed about general things.
A good example is the opening of Star Wars where the screen rolls 'Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away'... Then suddenly we are seeing an Imperial ship chasing and firing on a passenger ship. From that point on bits and pieces from the past are being strung together, secondary and tertiary stories to the main story.
The reader starts to care, because they want to know more about Ben Kan-obi, who this princess is and who that kid Luke is....
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