Concentrate on the visual appearance of the room, but focus in on details that will generate an atmosphere and beg questions. The suggestion of action can be as potent a motor of the plot as witnessing the action itself.
Tuesday 8 November 2011
A Tuesday Evening Exercise
Describe a room in which something has just happened. It could be that the curtains around the French windows are curling in the breeze because somebody has just made a rapid exit, or that some china has been smashed as the result of a heated argument, or that the cushions on the sofa have been flattened by an amorous encounter, or a murder, or both.
Concentrate on the visual appearance of the room, but focus in on details that will generate an atmosphere and beg questions. The suggestion of action can be as potent a motor of the plot as witnessing the action itself.
The same sense of mystery is present in an unopenable door...
Concentrate on the visual appearance of the room, but focus in on details that will generate an atmosphere and beg questions. The suggestion of action can be as potent a motor of the plot as witnessing the action itself.
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