ENERGY
The strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity. A feeling of possessing such strength and vitality. Dynamic quality
ELABORATE
Involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning. . Planned or executed with painstaking attention to numerous parts or details. Intricate and rich in detail.
Involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning. . Planned or executed with painstaking attention to numerous parts or details. Intricate and rich in detail.
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Energy and Elaborate–two wonderful words: I love it when I get an idea for a short story or novel and feel the energy of it flowing on the paper. When I feel the energy, then I believe my reader does too. Not every idea I come up with reaches that point and I have to elaborate until I get on the right path. Sometimes I never capture what I’m aiming for and lose all enthusiasm for the piece.
Do you think there’s a trick to creating energy in your writing? Like me, do you elaborate, flesh it out, layer it until you connect with that strength, vitality, voice you’re striving for? Sometimes I take a look at my verbs, cut the passive and add active verbs to make my piece come alive.
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