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To: Scourge of God

Do the work of good description for scenes ... your reader will appreciate the help in 'being there' more readily. The most endearing aspect of Mickey Spillane novels is the descriptive work which places the reader squarely in the scene. Reading adventure novels (for instance) sweeps the reader into 'another world' ... escaping for a time the world around them.


189 posted on 03/30/2007 8:49:29 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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To: MHGinTN
Do the work of good description for scenes ... your reader will appreciate the help in 'being there' more readily. The most endearing aspect of Mickey Spillane novels is the descriptive work which places the reader squarely in the scene. Reading adventure novels (for instance) sweeps the reader into 'another world' ... escaping for a time the world around them.

I completely agree. Based on your work, description will be different. LM Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables) was a master of description, and she seemed to approach it almost with a formula. The top of every chapter or section break usually has the physical description for the new scene.

Another master of description western writer Louis L'Amour used less description, and had it sprinkled about the chapter or section.

Let me ask you, do you read all of Mickey Spillane’s descriptions, or do you tend to skip them to get back to the action?

193 posted on 03/30/2007 9:03:20 AM PDT by Scourge of God (Remember, liberals, 'baaa' means NO!)
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To: MHGinTN

Back in the days of transom drops the unpublished author was both a pest and a welcome guest for the harried editor; nothing new is found in an old shoe.


554 posted on 04/24/2009 10:21:35 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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