![]() When you show your characters interacting with your world instead of only describing the world or the character, you accomplish more with fewer words. Instead of saying “Cinder was a cyborg,” Meyer shows Cinder’s bodily state and her determination to upgrade herself. All of this is shown through the action of the character working to remove her too-small foot.īeginning with action in this way allows your reader to get to know your world by your character’s interactions with it. The first two sentences of Cinder reveal the main character, that the character is a cyborg, and that the current screw has been in use for a long time. Her knuckles ached from forcing the screwdriver into the joint as she struggled to loosen the screw one gritting twist at time (1). ![]() ![]() The screw through Cinder’s ankle had rusted, the engraved marks worn to a mangled circle. ![]()
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