http://www.storysurgeons.com/2009/11/25/in-the-details/ Writing and Editing Services for Fiction and Non-Fiction Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:27:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.storysurgeons.com/2009/11/25/in-the-details/comment-page-1/#comment-47 shrodert Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:31:45 +0000 http://www.storysurgeons.com/?p=300#comment-47 Excellent point, and therein lies the craft. Your instincts are dead on. Once you identify the potent details, the question becomes what is revealed, and when. Your goal should be to allow the reader to become a partner in discovering the significance, rather than telling him what to think. Set up the proud family, and then be leaving the dead peach tree sitting there month after month, the reader himself will get the queasy feeling. Making the reader feel things is the whole point. Excellent point, and therein lies the craft. Your instincts are dead on. Once you identify the potent details, the question becomes what is revealed, and when. Your goal should be to allow the reader to become a partner in discovering the significance, rather than telling him what to think. Set up the proud family, and then be leaving the dead peach tree sitting there month after month, the reader himself will get the queasy feeling. Making the reader feel things is the whole point.

]]> http://www.storysurgeons.com/2009/11/25/in-the-details/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Lily Mackay Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:43:37 +0000 http://www.storysurgeons.com/?p=300#comment-45 Does the order of the significant details matter a lot? For instance, in the above example, I might have put the information about the perfect, yard proud family and the peach tree incident first, and used the leaving of the tree to rot in the middle of this perfect yard as a signal that something is wrong in the family. Does the order of the significant details matter a lot? For instance, in the above example, I might have put the information about the perfect, yard proud family and the peach tree incident first, and used the leaving of the tree to rot in the middle of this perfect yard as a signal that something is wrong in the family.

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