Maikadilwen-- Good thoughts on description. I too feel it's very important to describe things-- and you see it so vividly in your mind when your writing/making it up, don't you? You're right about Tolkien overwriting a bit-- but I like it anyway. Check out the 'Middle-Earth comes to life' thread for some Tolkien descriptions. As for finding that line, it depends on what sounds right to you, so try reading it aloud to yourself to activate your 'inner ear,' so to speak. You'll know what you like.
Saxony Tarn-- Whoa! I'm still reeling from that last round you got me! I broke out my friend's homebrew for your toast, which I sipped out of my tea cup-- pinky properly extended, of course. Lucky I saved half the bottle in my refrigerator. I must have psychic-ly anticipated I'd be having another! Where's my tea cup? Oh, here it is. Have a tea cup of Ale yourself. @\_/
Sorry it's not a pint, we only have tea cups here. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
As for characters breaking out and surprising you, that means the writing is working, you lucky dog. Glad to hear it. Yeah, it happens to me too. Just today a character who is supposed to break my hero's heart turned out nicer than I meant her to be and gave herself a down-to-earth nickname that totally changed my feelings about her, thereby wrecking my plot plans. The best experience I had was in the middle of an angst-ridden real-world story chock full of symbolism. I was writing away and suddenly I couldn't-- take-- the-- pain-- anymore, then I realized, 'I'm the author, I don't have to put up with this,' so I broke into the story via brackets and told the heroine, 'I'll save you!' Then I blew a hole in the airplane and sucked her whining fiancee out into bluespace-- Yeahh!!! (She wasn't hurt, SHE was wearing her seatbelt.) It greatly improved the story but it sort of wrecked all the symbolism. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
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