It's not hard writing action scenes or dialogue or confessions of love. What's truly hard is writing about someone drawing the blinds (WHAT EVEN ARE THE LITTLE STRINGS YOU PULL CALLED??) or describing mundane movements that you do a thousand times but never ever put into words.
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“I yanked at the pulley string thing but just ended up breaking the blinds.”
i only remembered when i walked in the store and picked up . A basket
Because I don't think there are many chimney sweeps wandering around these days.
I would be unable to furnish a kitchen with anything but basics. How do you say spatula?
Comes up so often in language learning sub reddits I'm in. Sometimes... it's just called "the loop for/to hang the ovenmit on/by," and I think we all need to make peace with that
Oven mitt thingy
Shoe lace thingy
Other thing doohickey
Eventually, even very descriptive texts are all about some kind of relationship. We happen to look at the blinds being shut
Closes blinds.
(Then the set designer decides what kind of blinds - or replaces it with)
Closes Curtains.
“He could never remember what people called those strings but he yanked it anyway and the blinds closed”. 😆
https://www.abebooks.com/9780345303028/What-Visual-Glossary-Physical-World-0345303024/plp
* kayfabe: being able to fake something so well that it's believably real and true.
You're welcome. Good luck!
.....they aren't? Huh. I will note a new thing learned.
Yep, that tracks.
it can be utterly important to describe this in detail, but how to do it, it should not be boring or weird.
there is no drama, just life...
Ez pz
Maybe they're just trying to branch out!
What I struggle with in writing is not overusing the word "said" when writing a conversation.
To be clear, I don't have an answer here. I tend to default to present tense, which has a whole 'nother set of sticking points.
if there’s a continuous conversation that’s dialogue heavy, i skip the “said” and its other synonyms entirely after 2-3 lines because the reader already has the context that this is a dialogue heavy conversation. it makes more room for 1/2
he huffs, raising his voice to a level inappropriate for a library, “but you really don’t need a verb that directly indicates speaking.”
under the stares of people in the open area, he crouches back down and leans in towards his friend, “my body language and environment imply my tone.”