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All writers struggle at some point with the problem of balance between authority and involvement, seduction and revelation. Specifically, beginning writers wonder how much description to employ, and more advanced writers ask how much plot is too much or too little. And there is no better place to find answers than in the Victoria's Secret catalogue--or in any ad for lingerie--where the arts of seduction and revelation are so successfully practiced. After all, the secret of the effective lingerie ad is the secret of effective storytelling--to provide, moment by moment, the illusion of imminent expose, to give the viewer (read: reader) the uncanny sense that something fundamentally compelling is always just about to be revealed. Lingerie ads and storytelling balance the veiled and the unveiled, the seen and the unseen, the shown and the about-to-be-shown. In short, it is the art of the tease, the craft of selective 'coverage,' that, not just in lingerie but in storytelling, works to enthrall.


Julie Checkoway


#fiction-writing #novel-writing #on-fiction #art

I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.


Scott McClanahan


#fiction #fictional #nonfiction #paintings #art

When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.


Dennis R. Miller


#how-to-write #on-writing #on-writing-fiction #art

[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son.


Randy Alcorn


#courageous #fatherhood #fiction #courage

It's time, Perry". He let her go. She took a step back, taking in his face one last time. His green eyes. The bend in his nose and the scars on his cheek. All the tiny inperfections that made him beautiful. Without a word, she turned and made her way downhill.


Veronica Rossi


#letting-go #romance #under-the-never-sky #young-adult #beauty

I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.


Loung Ung


#sad #beauty

Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.


Jennifer Donnelly


#jennifer-donnelly #revolution #urban #beauty

I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.


S.J. Perelman


#sci-fi #science #science-fiction #beauty

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either


Jennifer Donnelly


#french-revolution #ya-novel #beauty

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.


Eileen Favorite


#books #fiction #on-fiction #beauty






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