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comment by Isherwood
Isherwood  ·  3547 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today's writing prompt: All the Senses

Great work! This is a wonderful example of showing instead of telling. By showing your character sinking into the snow instead of telling me it was snowing, you painted the scene much more subtly and allowed me to be be enveloped by it. The descriptions were wonderful and the use of sense was good. Taste was kind of shoehorned in at the end but that's totally understandable, it's a tricky one.

The characters felt real and the sparse use of dialogue was very fitting to the situation. My only negative feedback is that I want to know more about the situation. Maybe I'm dense but all in all it felt a little too cryptic. I get that they're leaving a cabin for the cold, but a bit more depth there would be nice. There were also sentences that started with conjunctions and phrases that used the same word twice, but those are minor and more attuned to your style than steadfast rules.

Great work and keep writing.





swedishbadgergirl  ·  3544 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's probably way to cryptic, I know why they are leaving and where thay are going - and in my head this is part of a larger story where it's all explained. I need to work on actually being a bit clearer when I'm writing short scenes.

Isherwood  ·  3544 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's probably a bit of a bait and switch on my end - saying I want a scene then complaining there's not the context of a full story. If it's any consolation, the scene has a lot of weight to it and the characters are convicted enough to show there's a whole world around them, so I know the rest of the story is there, I just want to see it.