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Seeing Double!
I was watching television one day and I noticed something that was a bit of an epiphany. The program started with the shot coming from the interior of a refrigerator, you know, the frig door slamming in our face and then an exterior kitchen shot of the rest of the conversation. At that point in the show, I wasn't engaged in the show and stopped to give thought to how the camera shot was done...did they actually cut out the back of a frig? Or just set a small camera inside?
Anyway, the epiphany came at the end of the show when the characters were back in the kitchen at night and the last shot ended up being just like the first scene. This time the last phrase of the conversation was spoken into the frig and then shut the door - fade to black. There are a lot of parallels in life, you have to admit. Things that compliment each other, yin and yang, masculine and feminine, and bacon and eggs. (Okay, maybe not the last one, but I'm hungry.) And then there's the classic opposites of good and evil or dark and light.
Sometimes we can get stuck while writing. Perhaps a good segue is needed from one scene to another, or a meaningful ending to a well written story is desired. Not every cowboy can ride off into the sunset. So think about your first scene, or something significant built during your rising action scenes and dialog...then find an opposite or complimentary scene to use while wrapping up your story. Write on!
This month's question: Do you use duality in your writing?
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Excerpt: Usually, he found his beauties outside of his rural hometown of Floyd, Virginia, but it was the fifth anniversary of when he first met his first love, Marissa. He only planned to have a drink or two at the local tavern, where he found her, to celebrate. Yet, there Cassandra was, amber-eyed with a chocolate complexion, just like his lovely Marissa.
Excerpt: This all started with a dance and a pair of socks. "Nice socks," she said. Great smile, forming little arrowheads to her sparkling blue-eyes. There was a wisp of corn-silk hair falling over her right eye. She brushed it aside.
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Excerpt: Pierre’s Fine French Cuisine was the most popular restaurant in Grass Creek, Ohio. Established in the early 1980s by its namesake lead chef, people for miles around flocked to the little town to dine on Pierre’s delicious creations.
That is, until the evening of July 30th, 2018, when customers arrived only to find the parking lot surrounded by yellow police tape emblazoned with the words CRIME SCENE-DO NOT CROSS and numerous cop cars with their blue and red Christmas lights flashing all over the place.
Excerpt: The cascades of flowers surrounding my husband’s flag-draped coffin scented the air, as Sergeant John Burns described what happened that fateful day.
“There was nothing anyone could do,” John said. “The IED exploded directly under his vehicle. It was over in an instant—Mike didn’t suffer.”
Excerpt: “Hey, don’t touch that!” she yelled.
The crow flew into the living-room, landing on the purple, silk cloth that covered the table where Robert had found the knife, and glared at the man.
Robert set the blade down and put his hands in the air. “I was just checking it out. What’s that symbol on the wooden handle, anyway?”
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This month's question: Do you use duality in your writing?
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Last month's question in "Action/Adventure Newsletter (July 4, 2018)" : What are some of your typical character responses? Any clever responses?
Monty  said:I found this to be an interesting News Letter and as a writer of poetry I can put myself in most of your comments.
Quick-Quill  sent: This is a keeper for my reference. It is good to read how the mind works in these situations, especially since I'm working on an action/thriller story along with my other book.
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