Lena Jones

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader. Not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. E.L. Doctorow


Wow! Finding how to make the reader feel the rain instead of telling him about it is way harder than it sounds.

I am re-reading In The Rain and am finding lots of telling. I want the reader to feel what the characters are feeling, smell what is being smelled, hear what is being heard.

Jeff Gerke (a writer-publisher-freelance editor) calls telling Blah Blah Blah, I have lots of Blah Blah Blah right now. I am planning on sending my manuscript to him at the end of the month but I already know what he's going to say.

Anyway haven't posted in a while so I thought I would update anyone who cares.
Talk to you soon.