Animation commentary on the tips to breathe life into the story

In order to make an interesting story, "built plot", "lively character" etc. are essential, but in the case of novels with few image elements such as images and the stage, in order to stir the image of the reader, Words that give sensation to you "becomes important. What is "a word that gives a sensation to a reader", how can it be incorporated into a story,TED-EdAt novelistNaro HopkinsonIt explains with animation.

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There are various reasons for us to read fictitious stories, such as "to catch the criminal", "to travel to the unexpected star", "to laugh", "to cry" "to think" "to think" "to feel".


While immersed in a fictitious story, the reader forgets when and where you are.


So, on the side of the writer, how is a fictional story made?


Exciting plots and ...


Of course there are also attractive characters to attract the reader to the story, but there are other elements.


For example, suppose there was a sentence "Billy's foot is noodle, her hair is a needle, the tongue is a hard sponge, and the eyes are made of bleach."


When there was a sentence like the above in the story, the reader literally did not transform Billy's body into another object, "Billy seemed to have become a bowl of his own feet and mischievous feet I felt it ", I can understand.


On the story, if I translate this into simple sentences, it seems that "Billy has become sick and weak." However, this sentence does not give the reader a clear image.


What is important in fictitious stories is "throwing spells"


At the moment the reader is reading a book, it is magical to feel like "I am alive in the story." In other words, it is necessary to give 'feelings' that let the experiences of the characters feel as if the readers are actually experiencing it.


Films and stages etc. are given to those who see this "sensation" in a visual and direct way.


It is because you can see the settings, situation, and character-to-character exchange directly.


On the other hand, in the case of novels, since only characters are written on white paper, the ability to cast magic tends to weaken as compared with images and the like.


Then, although you can understand the feelings that Billy felt, the condition that Billy's feelings can not come is born.


In writing a fictitious story, it is important, of course, that "the plot is interesting" "It makes me want to find out the truth" is important, but at the same time it is impossible to make the reader "feel like being a character himself" The reader may fall asleep on the way.


For that reason, the fictitious stories that authors create are interspersed with various "senses", such as taste, hearing, vision, tactile sense, and vision.


For example, "The World was ghost-quiet, except for the crack of sails and the bubling of water against hull" (the sail sounds like a rattle, as if the world had disappeared except that the water hit the ship and made a noise) It was quiet on) "There is a sentence.


At this time, the three words "quiet", "crack" (sound of crack / rattling), burbling (barbling / bubbling noise) give the reader a "sense" of hearing.


At this time, the three words are not simply "big" or "small", but rather those that give concreteity to each "sound", the reader is supposed to be able to float a specific image in the head.


By the magic of these words, a scene emerges in the head of the reader.


And finally, we combine words that are not normally used together, "ghost" and "quiet", giving an abstract image. Rather than expressing it as "quiet as a ghost" rather than expressing it as "ghost-quiet", it is the point that it is pointed out, not by writing clearly but by "hinting" The experience of reading will change greatly.


Also, the writer always avoids "clichés" such as "red like roses". The worn-out image does not give the reader clear sharpness.


"Love began from the beach, there is a sentence saying" On the day Jacob saw Ann who was dressed in a color dress that boiled down cherries "....


Readers start to imagine the color of Anne's dress wearing. This is to draw the reader into the scene.


The writer writes out "sensation" in the sentence, and the dynamic world is completed, so that the reader can experience the romance witnessing on the beach.


When writing a story, be careful with choosing words related to "feeling", such as sound, taste, smell, movement, touching, etc. It creates an unexpected "meaning of the word" that ignores the imagination of the reader, simply by writing it.