[taken from the July issue of the MBT Ezine. Read more about Word Painting at: http://voicesmag.mybooktherapy.com] I love word painting. It’s the last element of texture I add into a piece before I move into polishing. It’s adding those eloquent, specific words and cadences to a sentence or paragraph that not only makes it come alive … but adds in the right emotion. A book is all about connecting to the reader’s emotions, and word painting is the finite art of wooing your words into your reader’s heart. It’s going beyond naming and telling emotions to using the painting of words to evoke the correct feeling. Let’s take a look. Here’s a piece of word painting from my current novel, Sons of Thunder: Markos speared the water. The cool lick […]
