Would You Save Someone?
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If you ever want some feed back I'm sure you'll find lots of 'able readers' on here, I'd personally be quite happy to read it in my spare time but then there's obvious issues in dispensing your unpublished works around (mainly copy write in case of thieves).MelasZepheos said:
When writing I get blanks all the times, mainly due to searching for the perfect words and phrases to describe a situation. Worst part is when you read over it again and decide its no longer what you want.
I agree that a comic or film often sound more appealing, particularly to writers as the story plays through their minds so they know how they'd caption it given the resources, but well done narratives and descriptions can be just as good as you have access to vagueness the reader can fill to his liking. In the zombie apocalypse story for example, each reader I'm sure would be placing themselves in the characters' shoes, something which isn't as readily available in a movie as we don't all look like Jake Gyllenhaal. (first name to come to mind, I've no idea why)
Id save my closest friends but then again they live really far away so id need to drive quite a bit.
See, for me a lot of it comes from how I envisage the story in my own head (duh.) For example, I'm writing a fantasy series right now which I am totally enamoured of, because I do think it's some of my best work. The trick is, whenever I try and think of the story, although I can visualise the characters, what I can visualise even more is the perfect turn of phrase for me to describe them (for me of course, someone else might think the phrase I've used is useless.)Kurokami said:
This story though, and also any superhero stories I write every so often, I can never think of the right thing to say, but I can see very clearly still frames which sum up the story in a perfect snapshot (whether I could draw these snapshot images is another issue.) For exmaple, one of the pre-production extracts I wrote for this story was a 1000 word shot of the Girl in a corner at night, rain coming down, clutching a loaded revolver while she hears zombies moving in the night and then hears two shots from the area where the Boy went to get food. It took me 1000 words to describe all that in the detail I needed, and in my head I was able to see perhaps four panels of a comic book that summed up the entire detail perfectly, and with more scope of emotion, because describing the facial expressions is always a major writing no no, but drawing them is very powerful.
Like I said, I'm thinking on it and trying to sketch out some of my initial concepts. One way or the other, I'll try and get them up here when they're done, just to get feedback. Should I PM you when I finally get round to it? (I should mention I'm also coming up on exam period, so probably the earliest I'll get some serious work in on this is in about 5 weeks.)
