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Writing Emotions VISUALLY

Writing Emotions VISUALLY

"What is ...VISUAL writing?"
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-- Visual writing is when the reader can SEE your story unfolding in their imaginations just like a movie.

    * Non-visual: It was a dreary day.
    * Visual: Icy rain slithered down the window glass from an iron gray sky.

This is more commonly known as SHOWING vs. TELLING.

    * Telling: It was a dreary day.
    * Showing: Icy rain slithered down the window glass from an iron gray sky.

"What's wrong with just...Telling them?"
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-- The problem lays with Reader interpre

Plot Devices-Deus Ex Machina?

Plot Devices:
Deus Ex Machina or Chekhov's Gun?

----Original Message----
"What are your thoughts on Good Deus Ex Machinas? I find them hard to pull off realistically in a plot." -- Puzzled Writer
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A Deus Ex Machina is when the Hero doesn't find the solution to the story's problem. The solution is handed to them, or taken care of, by someone or something far more powerful.

From TV Tropes:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeusExMachina
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A Deus Ex Machina is an outside force that solves a seemingly unsolvable problem in an extremely unlikely (and, usually, anticlimactic) way. If the secret document

Plotting-Murphy's Law Method

Plotting Tricks: The Murphy's Law Method
"What Can go Wrong SHOULD go Wrong."

If you want an easy way to plot out a story that your readers can't guess the end to by the fourth chapter, then THIS is the method for you!

Basically, you begin with a character and something they desire. They go after their desire which immediately sparks complications which become a Problem that your character has to solve.

Once the character applies their chosen Solution to their Problem, Murphy's Law kicks in. The Solution triggers yet another problem.

This pattern continues--Problem > Solution > Problem--so on and so forth until All the problems are solv

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*Morrigan22 Jul 6, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

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*OokamiKasumi Jul 29, 2012 Professional Writer

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*InkyRose Dec 28, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

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