Author: L. M. Montes
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Uniqueness
A Dove Greeting the Day with a Morning Coo
Assonance and Alliteration
- Assonance–The repetition of vowel sounds across a line of poetry or text
- Sweep the tree needles near me.
- Stinker Tinker shuffled his feet along the rough ground.
- The knife caught and left me wrought.
- Smoke grabbed hold and I choked.
- Alliteration–Words in a line of text that all begin with the same letter or sound.
- The wind whipped across the plains.
- Thick thistles picked my fingers.
- Sally sat on the large log.
Words As Clay
You’re in the middle of writing a story. You are at a point in your creation where you need to add some friction or a tense moment. You know what needs to go into the scene. You can see it in front of you (so to speak). But, what can you do to intensify the suspense? Yes, you know what will cause it, but how can you bring it more to life and jump off the page? Word choice. Not just any choice of words either. You need words with certain sounds that, when put together, bring about a certain feeling or whatever feeling you’re trying to convey.
What sounds in the following sentences add to the intended feeling?
- Tension–The stranger’s body thunked to the ground, when the knife pierced his chest.
- Eerie–The air’s cold finger touched the back of my neck in spite of the warm breeze coming in off the lake. The shadow wafted over the sand, paused, then glided onward.
- Joy–The shiny bells glistened in the candlelight, as the children opened their presents.
- Sadness–Tears formed in the corner of her eyes then trickled down her cheeks as she gazed into the casket that contained the mother she never got to know.
Whichever sounds you use in your writing is up to you, but using various literary devices can certainly help with this. Some of them are listed below.
- Assonance
- Alliteration
- Personification
- Metaphor
- Simile
- Allusion
- Onomatopoeia
- Imagery
- Foreshadowing
In future posts I will cover each of these more in depth. In this post I just wanted to bring them to the surface. I know though that we use these devices regularly in our writing without thinking about them. But, when you are writing a particular scene and need to create a certain feeling and nothing is coming to you, then the above devices are a great arsenal to draw from.
It’s My Mouse
The Middle Pieces
Have you ever put together a jigsaw puzzle? What do you start with? The side pieces? The middle pieces? Usually one works with the edges first, then the middle, and the center (or near there) is the ending where the last and final piece of the puzzle gets put down and it all comes together. Usually, that is. Maybe you’re the kind of puzzler that works from the center to the outer edges (shoulder shrug here). It really is what you’re comfortable with. I like putting the edges together first and work my way to the center.
I write much the same way. I start with the beginning (edges) and work my way to the center (ending). (Laughing here) Sometimes I have my beginning and ending and work the middle last to bring it all together. But…what if your middle is in pieces. You have lots of ideas but you just are not able to bring them together and make them fit so that there’s a flow to your story. What are you going to make them fit?
IDEA BOARD
- Go back to your writing journal if you have one (or whatever you use to write your ideas in/on) and read through what you have in way of ideas. Write each one on a separate note card.
- Get a bulletin board, a white board, or your floor if that’s what you prefer.
- Lay out your ideas in an order to your liking.
- Now, play connect the dots. How do these ideas connect to each other? Many scenarios will jump into your head as far as connections go. Why? Because here you’re taking a step back and looking at the big picture. If you’re an auditory learner, read each idea a loud off the board as you are trying to come up with a way to connect them.
Thank You
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Truth
You
Be the best YOU you can be. Don’t try to be someone else because you’re not them. Two people can do the same thing but each a different way. Yet…the outcome is the same. Why? Both individuals are different. So…be YOU.
