http://www.shawn-scarber.com/four-things/ Exploring Story Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:42:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.shawn-scarber.com/four-things/comment-page-1/#comment-72 ShawnScarber Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:37:20 +0000 http://www.shawn-scarber.com/?p=98#comment-72 After days of pondering my main character’s dilemma and the weeks of flipping scenes over in my head, everything congeals into a mass of setting, specific details, dialogue, turns of phrase, emotional highs, emotional lows, and subtext. Sitting down to the keyboard with this waking dream allows me to record what I experience through my characters moment by moment without interruption; when I’ve achieved this, on the rare occasion that I can, the words flow as smooth as butter melting over hot pancakes. After days of pondering my main character’s dilemma and the weeks of flipping scenes over in my head, everything congeals into a mass of setting, specific details, dialogue, turns of phrase, emotional highs, emotional lows, and subtext. Sitting down to the keyboard with this waking dream allows me to record what I experience through my characters moment by moment without interruption; when I’ve achieved this, on the rare occasion that I can, the words flow as smooth as butter melting over hot pancakes.

]]> http://www.shawn-scarber.com/four-things/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Dal Jeanis Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:47:55 +0000 http://www.shawn-scarber.com/?p=98#comment-69 Shawn - If you'd take the time to write 100-200 words describing how it felt to have the words coming out "like melted butter", I'll post it over at <a href="http://whiteflow.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">White Flow.</a> Dal Shawn – If you’d take the time to write 100-200 words describing how it felt to have the words coming out “like melted butter”, I’ll post it over at White Flow.
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