Showing, Telling, Introducing and Establishing

Question 1:

Look at something nearby….

• How would you describe it for someone to paint a picture of it?

 (Please read on for answers)

Welcome to session seven. Please walk through the door and across the fitted deep-pile carpet and recline gently on the padded leather.

Now that we have covered all the major elements of fiction, it is time to start looking at specific writing techniques. We will begin with one of the most common pieces of advice in creative writing: “Show, don’t tell.” We will to be looking today at what this really means and the different ways it can be used. After five sessions in ancient Greece, we are moving on to the next destination on our journey through the history of psychology; the Middle East, where we will be seeing what one of the early Abrahamic religions thought about it. Please make yourself comfortable and let’s get started.

Extra Session: My fiction

 

“The Physicist’s Party”

An Erik Midgard Case Files tribute to

Professor Stephen Hawking

(1942 – 2018)

By Kit Downes

First English Language Rights © 30.04.2018

 

Even though it existed as nothing more than energy, I could feel my heart pounding every second as we backstepped.

Normally, I was grateful that I could no longer see anything when I teleported, but there were times when I missed it. Tonight, travelling back nearly a thousand years to a location we only knew as co-ordinates, with no idea what we were going to find when we got there, was at the top of the list.

Symbols, She and Stoicism

Question 1:

What does the following mean to you?

• A rose
• An open door
• Black clothes
• A snake
• The colour green
• A locked box
• A closed door

 (Please read on for answers)

Welcome to session number six. Please come in and make yourself comfortable.

One of the problems I run into with writing about the different elements of fiction is that is there is often a lot of overlap between them. Plenty of them are closely or inter-related, and I often find myself needing to explain something about one element by referring to a different one which we have not covered yet. To make a start at correcting this, today we are looking properly at metaphor and symbolism, which I mentioned in our last session. In our tour of psychology, we are studying the work of another ancient Greek who used psychology to give practical advice for everyday life. Please lie down and take a moment to think about what the couch represents to you and we will begin.