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12 Jun 09 The Importance of being Observant

Beauty lies in details, and to adorn your writing with details you need to pay a close attention to the things happening around you. Observation and asking questions are two key skills required to understand the knitting of the social fabric.

A close observation of your surrounding will bring required depth in your writing by giving you access to the underlying pattern of the society. Observation will make you understand how certain thing and certain types of person work in certain situation. It will help you gauge a person’s response to a certain kind of problem in any specific situation, or in different situations. This understanding will add colors to the picture you want to paint of your protagonist, or of any minor character in your story. You need to have a good observation skill, even if, you want to write fantasy fiction because the understanding you will develop by being observant will help you write a story that will have a connect with the readers.

Asking relevant questions and listening to the answers offered will give you a good understanding of the psychological make-up of any society. While asking questions, do not just follow words spoken, but look for the meaning left hidden beneath the unspoken ones. For this, you need to be a very careful listener and a keen observer.

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Tags: , Careful Listener, Close Observation, Colors, Fantasy Fiction, , , Key Skills, Knitting, Minor Character, Paint, Person Work, Protagonist, , Social Fabric

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