Layering....
Today's entry is not going to be very long. But sometimes we don't need a lot of words to get across what we're saying. Then again, it depends on what you're trying to convey in a scene. I've recently had an interesting question come up where a friend told me they could write an action but didn't know how to fill the rest of the scene out. Details, setting, background, etc. were the areas they had trouble with. I knew this problem all to well, I went through it a number of times and I know other writers have as well. Interestingly enough in my Writing Class we came across an exercise that really helped me and I'm going to share it here with all of you. It's nothing special but it really helped me and I hope it does the same for all of you. Here goes... MAIN ACTION: She walked out onto the porch. Not a lot there besides the activity. Now here's the first layer I added to the scene. She walked barefoot out onto the wooden deck of th...