The Shady Post Shadowed's Personal Blog From the Depths of Her Mind by: ShadowedSin

My thoughts on the world and what is coming about for the future! Expect at least one post from the Shady Place of my mind at least once a week or once every two weeks when I'm busy.

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Di dhuit mo gcairde! or sa bearla "Hello my friends!

Last week I about fatigue and exhaustion from the long hours of work I'd experienced. Now, to clarify I work at Petsmart as a Cashier and in the Petcare Department. My job includes hours of customer service and helping people learn how to care for their pets. In between that I spend a lot of time feeding and caring for the animals we have at the store.

This work week so far has started off on a nice start, though last week I learned it is very likely I need to update my mental illness classification. But, until I get a clearer idea I won't be talking about that.

I digress, however, as today I want to talk a little about my style of writing and why you often don't see me writing out large chunks of wordage at a time. If I have the muse I can write more than 5,000 words in a day. That's not bad for a professional author and to be honest, I spend as much time also working on ideas. You see I'm a world builder and a language artist at heart so I often spend just as much time devising the story as I do the world around it. For Scald Crow this includes a lot of carefully researched plot structure and tons of foreshadowing. I learned this from other authors, "I am not required to define everything to the reader."

Instead of telling I show. My characters comment on something and I let the story reveal its secrets as plot needs to. I actually like to encourage readers to theorize about my writing and so I often do not clarify things unless it is absolutely necessary. The thing you have to remember even if I don't elucidate why a character is related to another there is a reason. I put it all together and instead of spending hours of exposition to explain it I just let it exist.

The best worlds made in writing are those with millions of small details that seem innocuous or easily are missed. Things like small greetings or styles of dress. How a group of families organize. As long as these are all defined carefully and consistent in their presentation the world lives and breathes on a level others can't.