syn·aes·the·sia – a subjective sensation that occurs in one sense modality when another modality is stimulated…. syn·aes·thet'ic – involving more than one sense
Describing emotion: balancing show and tell Body language and action Thoughts Internal sensations Dialogue Body language In active storytelling, action is king 93% of all communication is non verbal Primal instinct is at work (constantly aware of our environment) We are all adept body language readers (and so are our story readers) Use body […]
Sharing characterisations & emotions without telling or info dumps Do more with less If you are describing appearance, also include emotional description Learn to convey information with powerful word structure rather than writing it all out What does ‘Show, don’t tell’ really mean? It is the drop in your stomach when you jump […]
And the flipside is using flaws / negative traits Hobble your character with flaws A flaw is a negative quality that emerges in a character’s personality as a result of an emotionally hurtful experience Just as we have a survival response for physical dangers (fight or flight), we instinctively protect our emotions from harm as […]
Building a hero / heroine from the ground up – What makes a reader fall in love with a character? – How can we create these types of characters ourselves? – How to create deep compelling characters that stick with a reader. Elements: Reader fascination: Offer a view into the characters and his world […]
And so, dear readers, it is once more unto the breach… An interstate trek, stranded at airport for ages as shuttle didn’t turn up, eventually finding and checking into hotel. Followed by an attempt to register the day before the conference opened (foiled!) so as to avoid a stupidly early start on Friday. Alas, stupidly […]
One of my colleagues had her birthday a while back, and I wanted to play around with some new papers and wooden embellishments I got around Christmas time. The papers are from Prima Marketing’s Epiphany collection (specifically the Striking Appearance design), which has distressed, watercolour-esque backgrounds with black doodle style images. There is a light […]
Jupiter Ascending was, in a word, Fabulous. In two words it was Absolutely Fabulous. My slightly longer review is that I think I understand why reviewers aren’t liking it much: because they don’t understand that it is the film version of a Space Opera roleplaying campaign. I don’t know WHY they were expecting something else, […]
My former director left my workplace recently, and this is the card I made for her from those in my team who used to be in her area. Cream cardstock folded to a square card, edged in blue ink. Strip of blue, white and gold chiyogami paper mounted on blue metallic paper, and then placed […]
Dave and I went to see the new Sydney production of this show recently – he has never seen it on stage before, although he has of course seen the musical version movie. On the other hand I have seen it at least 6 times before on stage (it may be 7, I lost count), […]
One of my colleagues finished up at work recently, as her position was made redundant. I have worked closely with her for quite a few years, and I’m very sad to see her leave 🙁 She has commented before that I usually make her cards with ‘island colours’ (she is from Fiji), so I wanted […]
