The First Five Pages: Style

Oh my god, this is fun. Why didn’t anyone ever tell me this was so much fun? I am taking a scene I wrote that had lots of description (not so heavy on the dialogue) and I am trying to first, write it as simple and straightforward as possible. Turns out, this particular piece is somewhat straight forward already. But then, the second one was to rewrite it using the opposite style as you use normally. Fun!

It’s like the time the gals and I in grade nine English tried to write our little piece as vulgar and awful as possible–without getting into trouble, that is. That piece was so gross. Yet so much fun to write. I think I still have it somewhere. That poor teacher. The piece bothered him as we had hoped it would. Oh, the power of using the right words.

Anyway, my little piece is getting long and convoluted and so much fun! (As you may have noted, I am past fixing up the comparisons in my manuscript. Although, going through my manuscript for style may be just as agonizing.)

I am so glad my hubby took me to the bookstore that day and that I decided to look at the writing books and that I found Lukeman’s book. It has been a BLAST! I recommend it, recommend it, recommend it.

Seriously, I recommend it.

I just wrote him an ‘I worship you’ email to thank him for writing his book and letting him know how useful and wonderful it is. And guess what? He has a free download of his e-book on query letters. Does life get any better than this?

Am I geeking out here? Is it legal to have this much fun? Sure, it is hard. But it is hard fun. And even though I complain a little bit here and there, it is only because my head is about to explode. But then I finish and everything reads better and I am on to the next exciting exercise and it is ‘wahoo’ time again.

Anyway, I must go have more fun finishing my convoluted scene. Oh, and getting some Cheerios for my daughter.