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Writer's tips

       Writer's tips in Global Dig


1.When writing an historical novel you have to think of every last detail of truth even down to a spy character taking a casual picture with a tourist and the possible change in the spy's future from taking that picture.  You have to think of the things like whether certain trains would have been running in that time period and what would have been their routes or if the empire state building could have been seen from the distance that you had that character see it.


2.In a story, even a minor character's exchanges need to be specific.  You can't just say the tickets were given if there was no one in the scene to give the tickets.


3.  Body language in a scene is very important with a memorable character.  A character's actions need to be over emphasized on the paper whether its their reaction to another character's words or their drastic movements.

Total lack of awareness

   

A poem

Total lack of awareness, stuck on the methadone.

She was totally unaware.

If she asked everyone in the library for a piece of gum  it was fine.

With her she spoke so load that the folks with the headphones could hear her.  She was unaware.  She didn't care.

She hit down on the computer keys with her manicured nails to the annoyance of the librarians whose shush-shushing noises began a cadence of music and sound.  

Tennant home

   

A Three Minute Free Write

"What a pigsty!"I say.  "Not nearly what I expected."  

This is a woman who clamored down on her tenant for wiping a single hand print on her pure white washed walls.  A woman who wrote passive aggressive post-it notes  on the bathroom mirror.  A woman whom if you passed gas without spraying you were in very deep s#i%.  Or if you left your leftovers in the refrigerator she'd start fumigating the kitchen.  Her tenant's home was immaculate:   rodent free floors with rodent free walls, rodent free pipes and rodent free walls. 

And the landlord's own home was filled with dirty laundry, basket upon basket.  A hoarder's dream.  The kitchen was filled with pop cans, bag upon bag, waiting for the collector's to give her a dollar.  Was it worth it? I asked.  She'd collect the pop cans at work, a book club, at her nearest grocery store.  Are you done with that?  She'd scoop up the can from the patron's hand, throw it in her recycled bag for safe keeping while her home was collecting.

Hannah Hung, Food Writer

Hannah Hung, a food writer writes on average 3-4 restaurant reviews a day with a total accumulated 1,373 restaurant reviews last year alone!  Her reviews are posted on yelp.com and here's a comment that she wrote on Nando's Peri-Peri restaurant We decided to dine-in (loved the colorful decor, with the cyan-ish lampshades and the awesome art pieces on the wall). All of her posts are at least 300 words long which puts most food writers to shame. Check her out at Hannah Hung  

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