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The Rising of the Written: Writers Guide
Quote One
The Rising of the Written: Detailing with Vocabulary
“Simplicity in detail.” This quote was designed to help an author realize the use of vocabulary and its drawbacks. An extensive vocabulary must be utilized when an author writes or the work will contain no depth. All throughout the story various alternative words must be place to prevent repetitiveness and also to create a more vivid image. A place that is most important to pay attention to with this rule is the first opening pages of the work, most specifically the opening sentence, the opening hook.
There are many ways to open a book as an author. The first example of this is the opening sentence in The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. “In a hole there lived a hobbit.” This opening sentence devised a hook in simplicity but did not give thought to the inquisitive eye. The words in the sentence did not advance each other they simply told what is in strict boundaries. The only reason this sentence hooks the reader is through the word ”hobbit”, which makes the reader question, ‘what is a hobbit?’ and continue to read on to find the answer, and thus is hooked. This opening was followed by a three-quarter-page description of the door of the hobbit’s hole and how it described the character of the hobbit behind its frame, this is used in order to make up for the lack of reader assumptions.
A different example lies in the first sentence of Robert Anson Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love. “The door dilated.” This first sentence allows through its use of vocabulary, the inquisitive mind to interpret a sense of the nature of the door. In this sense using the word ‘dilated’ allows the reader to know certain things about the door; one, it is round; two, it can grow larger or smaller depending on what passes through it; and three, it can open, close, and change size without influence. Also that sentence because of its vocabulary can raise questions in the readers mind such as; ‘is the door biological or mechanical?’ and ‘ who or what is coming through the door?’
The use of vocabulary can vary according to style, desired reader age, and the specific part of the book. The dealing of when to use extensiveness and when to keep restraint is based according to what the situation is, what time period you are imitating, the character you are using or describing (i.e., simpleminded characters described with simple words as to accent their personality). In the first sentence you have the choice to introduce your characters or just begin to describe the setting. In either direction you choose your first sentence should be short, followed by a longer one with more depth. From there a paragraph begins. This paragraph must be able to hook the reader. It is recommended that you utilize you vocabulary to create inferences and questions that the reader will discover.
