Retyping the Speckled Band, Part 3: Revealing Depth
Arachne Jericho on Jan 30th 2008
Last time, we looked at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s techniques of:
- the information dump as extended inner story; and
- pacing between inner and outer story.
Today, we’re going to look at Doyle’s adeptness at revealing character depth through multiple narrative means.
Let us type.
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A Date with Sherlock Holmes
Arachne Jericho on Jan 26th 2008
A question from the Holmesian.net forums: “Since many of you are in love with Holmes, what would it be like to go on a date with him? Where would you go? What would you do? details, please.”
I have decided to entertain you all with my answer.
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Retyping the Speckled Band, Part 2 - Dealing with Information Dumps
Arachne Jericho on Jan 16th 2008
Last time, we looked at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s techniques of:
- opening the story;
- non-direct dialog;
- laser-focused description;
- establishment of character.
Today we’re going to look at how Doyle attacks one of the most difficult methods for any fiction writer: the information dump.
Let us type.
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Retyping the Speckled Band, Part 1 - Beginning with Style
Arachne Jericho on Jan 14th 2008
When I first started writing fiction again in the middle of 2007, after a hiatus of over a decade, I realized that I had lost the cadence and flow of writing a story. Story writing is inherently an entirely different process from that of non-fiction. As a result, I had a tendency to stall, and stall badly.
The damage was spectacularly bad on a couple of short mystery stories I wrote. I was filled with sadness and despair, but I kept going ’cause I’m like that.
One day, I stumbled across the thread of a wise writer, by the name of James D. McDonald, over at AbsoluteWrite called Learn Writing with Uncle Jim. Continue Reading »
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