8 Terms
Contributors in Fiction
Fiction
Storyboard
Literature; Fiction
Adapted from the movies, a visually-oriented simple description of the events in a scene. Often useful for authors wishing to structure or restructure their plots and separate these elements from ...
Unperceived source
Literature; Fiction
An inspiration for an author's creation which the author does not recognise until it is pointed out to him. Many authors resist acknowledging their unperceived sources. (Geoff Ryman) See ''smart ...
Stalling
Literature; Fiction
When an author, knowing a big scene or crucial event is upcoming, writes desultory here-to-there scenes as a means of deferring the more difficult (and emotionally charged) task of writing the big ...
Snark rule
Literature; Fiction
"I tell you once, I tell you twice, what I tell you three times is true." Lewis Carroll, ''The Hunting of the Snark.'' When three or more critics concur on an element in a story, it is highly likely ...
Style
Literature; Fiction
Style is using words to create an aura, an effect that permeates the story. Extreme style becomes baroque, obtrusive stylization, but when handled deftly, the words become part of the fabric of the ...
Texture
Literature; Fiction
Texture encompasses both crispness of prose and efficiency of delivering images to the reader. At one level, it is word choice: at another, image choice. (E.g. when dealing with aliens in whom smell ...
