How to handle descriptions in a literary story you want to tell orally
by Gregg on November 25, 2012
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The wood’s descriptions just don’t work. I wanted you to move forward already. If I wanted to tell the story fully, the way you told it just now, I’m reconsidering. It has to be more ‘story like’ and help me connect. Maybe I need to lower the language and shorten the descriptions. Some pictures were very good, I could see them crystal clear, and there was action. Reading the story is very effective, listening to it – isn’t.
Unknowingly, G pointed at the main problem around telling literary stories; they were created in writing for the page, not orally.
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