• Café Life is the Colony's main hangout, watering hole and meeting point.

    This is a place where you'll meet and make writing friends, and indulge in stratospherically-elevated wit or barometrically low humour.

    Some Colonists pop in religiously every day before or after work. Others we see here less regularly, but all are equally welcome. Two important grounds rules…

    • Don't give offence
    • Don't take offence

    We now allow political discussion, but strongly suggest it takes place in the Steam Room, which is a private sub-forum within Café Life. It’s only accessible to Full Members.

    You can dismiss this notice by clicking the "x" box

Neuroscience of scene

Status
Not open for further replies.
It's why it's so closely aligned with finding a character's voice - if we use the character as an avatar, we take over the actions, the voice, the feelings, and 'become' the act[er] in the events.

The curtain flutters. That nasty woman. She's lived there thirty years, and her only life is watching mine. Well, damn this. I'm going to give her something to look at. Something to remember. I open the blinds, open the grimy windows, lift my nighty up to my neck, and spin around to bare my arse and the twenty-four stitches across my hip. Wonder what she'll have to say about that.

That's a character. Not just a few words to show third person, but the whole kit and kaboodle. 'Be' the character as we write her, and the reader 'becomes' the character through the presentation of an available avatar.

It might be that I'm a big fan of 'making the story real'.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Latest Articles By Litopians

  • Scammers
    The insidious presence of online scammers targeting authors is frightening. The increasing number su ...
  • The Other Side of the Table
    I recently found myself in the situation of being able to vote for my favourite novel extract. The a ...
  • Legend of the Selkie
    ‘Legend of the Selkie’ started as a short piece for the Creative Writing Masters at UCC, Cork. A ...
  • When We Shot the Last Rhino
    . A fabled hunter from Milan or Mombasa or somewhere raised his arms high and screamed in bloody t ...
  • On the shoulders of giants.
    I’ve got to stop hanging out on X. The writing community has, yet again, been rent apart by a schi ...
  • Lit Mags for Beginners – Part Two
    Last time we talked about finding publications to send your work to. Now you’ve imagined your stor ...
  • A Word from Nigel
    This is Nigel. Nigel is a horse. More specifically, Nigel is a feral stallion responsible for a herd ...
What Goes Around
Comes Around!
Back
Top