Show how the surroundings affect her in order to help the reader feel through her. The emotional impact will come from showing, describing, sensing, not telling.
Describe sparingly. Describe only what the character sees.
Show how the surroundings affect her in order to help the reader feel through her. The emotional impact will come from showing, describing, sensing, not telling.
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Show how a young girl would look at things. Forget about the way you see things, and put yourself in her shoes. Take her age into consideration. Kids would forget to pay the taxi driver or think twice before jumping into danger or leaving their stuff behind, thinking that adults would clean up after them. Some strangers appear scary to them. Kids would not think they have another option than just go inside.
Make your reader care about the character’s feelings. Show her true self though the way she manages these emotions. To make the story exciting, add unrealistic, farfetched emotions from an over active imagination. After all, kids that age are typically afraid of the things that go bump in the dark. Monsters crawling under their bed are still vivid.
Have a strong sense of setting in order to paint a vivid image.
The first few minutes you introduce your character, show how special she is, how she fits in this setting, and what things are important to her. Connect the reader to your character. What are the things they can relate to? And start in the middle of the action. Pfew! So much to do in your fist lines. |
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