Up to Snuff #110: More Fiction Notes
By, Afua Serwah Osei-Bonsu
Is the use of descriptions for manifestation in fiction writing an appropriate technique?
Is use of all descriptions the way of manifestation in fiction writing?
Are there other similar constructions like this use of all descriptions that could be utilized in creative writing for example?
Writing is a process of manifestation, therefore the use of all descriptions conjures, evokes, spiritualizes.
Show time.
What are qualities in fiction that make live? What are the make live qualities?
Actionable.
Make live?
Senses
Voice
Intelligence
Action
Within time
Has value
Changes
Grows
Develops
Lessons
Problem Solving
Insight, ingenuity, the ideas, the hook, then a story about how it plays out
Below every thought you carry with you that piece of ingenuity that insight
You develop a personal relationship, am I, which am I? Joy or devastation?
- “Wuthering Heights” child of love, child of hate.
“The emotional playground” in fiction is the primary function in good fiction.
The Audience. It’s for something or someone. Are you placing it in a 12 year olds hands?
It has a greater purpose may be something like cultural branding
It’s higher purpose may be something like opposition to divorce
A personal relationship, one must place themselves within some aspect of the books context
They must admire, relate or connect
A personality development beyond relationship, it may refine one in some way.
Like a lead poem plants a context in the mind and sows the field
Like a book preface or introduction may plant a foreshadowing or romance for the writer within a different perspective
A book almost always needs to have gifts and generosity. Gifts can be cultural gifts, personality trait gifts, but literature, in general, should have the quality of generosity.
Fiction may be a careful thread with cadence pulled from your various research and notes which are all writerly, smoothly laid not cut and paste or chopped or inserted, but written, revised, edited, slightly improved upon, refined and polished. It should be precise. Precision is an incredibly important word for a writer, as it impacts diction.
The most important thing you do is writing a plan, thumbnails, research sketches, all the variety of research you will need to build your story and education.
Your set may not be your key element, your key element may be your emotional playground. It may be more integral to the book -your insights trump your furniture. In the end the book lives in thoughts, it’s chiefly thoughts, it generates thoughts and has one most significant idea or insight. Your key work will exist within this domain around thinking and thoughts, insights and ideas.
Children’s books are generally spoken, fiction novels live in thoughts or imagination etc. Where creative non-fiction may aspire or exist in learning or knowledge areas.
There is a great story in some fiction. Some may be chiefly psychological, some may be chiefly storytelling, story after story. Some fiction novels are travel writing or autobiographical.
One must find their own agenda for each book. Some books are more imaginative, others are more emotional.
Software in the end will help with managing a large quantity of writing, organizing it, to edit it and in some cases design it. Writers who utilize software may come out with more perfected versions. Writers may also design their software to create a variety of types of writing or use different software for different writing if one becomes unable. You can get software for cover letters.
You do not want a program to write your books
Use of software as paramount to organization in fiction novels
Fiction books are the only ones that are novels.
You must make your own plan
Your own worksheet
Your own research
Your own emotional playground
You should not be me, or her or them, you must be yourself to be successful.
It is as it is; it is as you want it to be.