Graphic by Peg Ihinger
It’s another open mike/mic day. Talk about whatever you want–questions, answers, updates on current work, vacation plans, whatever.
I’m getting started on a completely new thing. It’s complicated and has…a lot more backstory than usual. I’ve had to do a lot more worldbuilding and planning than usual, and I’m having loads of fun. How about everybody else?
Just like reframing plot as setup and payoff has helped me enormously as a character driven writer, I’ve been tackling my poor description skills and realized that description is context, and this reframe is also enormously helping me, so rather than staring helplessly at a story that doesn’t have nonawkward room to just toss in description, even random scattered lines, now it does because I already know how to weave in worldbuilding context in a later pass. As I write out of order, it’s important to do it later when I know where it actually belongs.
Just my mini epiphany of the week.