The more you think about how text in a book, for example, is actually written, the more you realize that you can’t even really put your finger on it, much less accurately describe a scene in a movie or video game. The more you think about how text in a book, for example, is actually written, the more you realize that you can’t even really put your finger on it, much less accurately describe a scene in a movie or video game.
The other thing that happens when we think about how text is written is that we begin to think about what kind of text we want to write. Of course we want to write something really clear and meaningful, but we also want to write something just as readable and fun and entertaining as the material we are currently reading.
It’s the same reason that you might want to write a book about something you really want to talk about. Even if you don’t have the time and money to write a book, you can still write a book of your own.
When I think about how to write a book, I have to think about what the most important thing is about the book. That is, the book is the story, or the idea or the idea of the story. The writing is just a small thing that you try to get across that you want readers to understand. I know people who would rather keep everything in their head than put it all out in writing, because that’s just too hard to read.
I think this is one of the things that makes it so hard to write a book: Its impossible to compress a story into a reasonable length. So one of my goals as a writer is to make sure that the reader can read the whole thing in one sitting. I guess this is why I love reading books so much; I can keep one book for awhile and then read the next one at the same time.
Writing is a solitary activity that takes a long time. So it’s nice when people can just sit down and read it. But I also think that we lose a lot of control because we think that the words on the page will carry us through. So when I read a novel, even if the author’s writing isn’t as good as I would like it to be, I still want to feel as if I’m reading a good book.
Thats like reading a book and then you go to the store where they have a new book in the same genre. You decide that you dont want that book, it just doesnt feel right. Now you feel guilty, but you didnt want that book you just bought to feel bad. The same thing with a book.
When you watch a TV show, you want to feel as if the show isnt just a bunch of random actors doing random things. You want to feel like youve got a character to interact with. You want to feel like YOU know the show. But because you didnt know the show, you dont know the characters. What if you want to see a movie in the future and you dont know the actors in the movie. You just want to see the movie through their eyes.
A lot of people complain that they dont know what the actors in the movie are thinking. That is true. But in this case, the author isn’t complaining about how they dont know the actors or the movie. She is complaining that they dont know the characters.
In “What Purple prose”, author Jennifer Lynch shares a short list of “character-defining moments”. She lists four examples, each of which is a moment the writer would like to see in the future. These moments are all character defining, because they have the potential to change the course of the show. If you have the character defining moment in your future, you are closer to knowing the character.
