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the feeling of fall; kids playing
in the leaves, their laughter
echoing in that breeze. The
sounds of traffic further on
overlaying the laughter at times
with their horns and engines.
Sometimes, she finds herself
forgetting what life was about
when she was locked up in that
office.
Fall was her favorite time of
the year, and the sounds and
scents that the breeze carries
to her reminds her. It brings
back memories of her own
childhood, a time where she
had no worries beyond the ice
cream she was going to beg
her folks for that night.
Perhaps that extra slice of pie
she would nip from her mother
while her father pretended not
to see. The echo of that laugh-
ter in the breeze helped her feel
a whisper of her own youth.
Some would call this a fluff
post. However, this is devel-
oping your character in your
first post. Do you see the
difference between this latest
and the first? It is a good, solid
post that adds atmosphere,
thoughts and even a flavor of
the past.
It shapes the character in every
post, gives depth for others to
read. To someone like me, it
draws me into the character,
makes me hungry to know
more about the character. I am
going to read more about this
character, than a character that
was given only the line of “she
walks down the street.”
It takes maybe a minute or two
more to add that depth, to give
flesh to the bare bones of the
original action of walking down
the street. Remember, you
are describing a scene. Since
it is the written word, you as
the writer must add the back-
ground, the sounds, the smells
and the like that a movie would
give, or that you yourself ex-
perience. Giving a solid post
merely means to give the
reader, which is your audience,
something to sink their teeth
into. Think of it as you are the
storyteller. You have to give
more than bare bones; you
have to make your reader feel
they are there, experiencing
this with the character.
What not to do in making a
post.
There are many of us that type
a huge post, just so it will be
big. I have been known to do
that. I go back to read it, and
I can only shake my head at
myself. Its boring. It is boring
because while attempting to
describe, I over did it. I have
read books like that, where it
was all description, but over-
done. This is possible, and one
really has to be careful. It is a
fine line.
Always remember, you want to
provide within your post some-
thing to respond to. Always.
It is when you don’t that you
have only provided what is
termed as fluff. Let us go back
to that last post I used as an
example. It will be the perfect
example of...fluff.
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Making a Solid Post | By Gabby