1) Play with using deliberately foggy signifiers at key moments as an exercise in foregrounding these moments.
2) Play with writing a piece where one or more of the important bits are left off the page. (Some of these bits might include things people don’t say in dialogue.)

( Thinner South, and the game called Shar's War. )

Write something in a voice totally alien to you. Play. Before you write, list four characteristics of the voice you want to capture: Velocity of language. Verbosity (including the types of words used). Viewpoint - are we up close, or very removed, what person? Vision - what kinds of things does the narrative voice OBSERVE? Write for a while and ( Read more... )