Using the Five Senses to Create the Perfect Setting
In his book SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL FICTION,
Robert Newton Peck suggests that, " . . . a good author
writes with a camera, not a pen." Let's consider, then,
that if the author's eye is the camera, then his/her paper is
the theater screen. What the author imagines or "sees" must
be transmitted to the paper in such a dramatic way that the reader
feels he/she is actually a part of the scene they're reading,
experiencing it and seeing it in a physical sense. Read
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