Re: Using synesthesia Re: CRIT: "The Day They Took Port Sharehold" opening

Gerry Quinn wrote:
In article <ddfr-2ADDD3.09443415122008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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In article <1irzgds.skmw9k1hgoyf8N%green_knight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
green_knight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Catja Pafort) wrote:

Also, it's important to remember that
the reader is reading a book in sequence and will often imagine it as he
reads along, so if you write 'farmland' and your reader imagines endless
midwestern cornfields, talking about hedges three pages later will
confuse, give the rolling fields, hedges and occasional oak trees as a
starting point, and you'll take him with you.
Good point. One of things I tried to do when revising _Harald_ was to make sure that if a geographical feature was going to appear at some point, it got mentioned at the first place in the story where it reasonable could be.

Kind of the opposite case to Checkov's gun.

- Gerry Quinn
Not really. Checkov's gun on the mantel wouldn't likely be mentioned while describing the chamberpot (although this could be made to work).

The green grocer sent his boy around to deliver my carrots and bagels (Wycroft is the grocer's son, and will one day be grocer himself - but for now he makes the odd shilling running greens and baked goods for shops in town), the boy rides a heavy old one-speed bicycle with baskets fore and aft, and I have an old-fashioned blunderbuss mounted over the fireplace, which I keep loaded and primed, replacing the powder on communion Sundays.

Bill

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