Mertianna Georgia » humor http://www.mertianna.com Author of Paranormal Fantasy, Romance, and Mystery Wed, 27 Aug 2014 23:30:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Word of the Day – Bildungsroman http://www.mertianna.com/word-of-the-day-bildungsroman/ http://www.mertianna.com/word-of-the-day-bildungsroman/#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:42:27 +0000 Mertianna Georgia http://www.mertianna.com/?p=536
Today I nearly overturned my coffee cup in my excitment as I read an e-mail with the Word-Of-The-Day.  I subscribe to a service that sends these gems to me so I may practice pronouncing obsure words in the privacy of my own home.  This is the word I had to share:

Bildungsroman (BIL-doonks-roh-mahn)

Meaning: A novel about the moral and psychological growth of the main character

Example: While the author’s previous novel was a bildungsroman, her most recent book focuses on the trials and tribulations of breaking the law and eluding justice

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Don’t you just love the English language?  We have a word for everything.  Now when I attend a cocktail party and someone asks me what my latest book is about I have the perfect way to explain it all – in one word.  Oh yes, I’ll say, my novel is about Cara Augustine’s  bildungsroman. To which the recipient of this concise description will reply, Look!  There’s Charles, I have to speak with him about, uh, something right away! Watching the person’s rapidly retreating back,  I’ll stand there in my corner, glass of Chardonnay in hand, with a small satisfied smile on my face that I had the chance to use my new favorite word of the day.

]]> http://www.mertianna.com/word-of-the-day-bildungsroman/feed/ 1 The Emotional Depths of Deep Editing http://www.mertianna.com/the-emotional-depths-of-deep-editing/ http://www.mertianna.com/the-emotional-depths-of-deep-editing/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 16:38:38 +0000 Mertianna Georgia http://mertianna.com/blog1/?p=242
I recently went to a writers retreat in Pacific Grove, CA. The topic was how to bring emotional depth to your writing, or something along those lines. I’m a sucker for trying out things to bring more emotional depth to my characters so I signed up. In class that morning, I was all ready to learn secret NYT bestsellers techniques that would give my characters such emotional realism that they would literally have to reach out from the page to hand my sobbing (or laughing) readers a hanky to dry their tears so they could finish reading the rest of the book. What I got was a color-coded deep editing technique for analyzing how much internal thoughts/backstory, dialogue, action, setting/description, visceral physiological responses, and tension I had on every page. Yikes! Those who know my writing style know that I hate, well dislike intensely, editing my work. I’ve always felt that editing was akin to being strapped down to an uncomfortable chair and forced to see a agonizingly boring movie (such as War and Peace, the silent version, with no music, and dialogue cards written in Russian) over and over again.

This said, I was surprised to find that it was helpful to have a visual aid to see what was happening on the page. Just looking at the different colors in a holistic manner (oooh see the pretty highlighter colors…) allowed me to get a good idea if my narrative was doing the job I wanted it to do for the scene. Too much backstory or internal musings would result in looking at a big puddle of yellow

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In the beginning I groused to my unlucky table partners about the mega-horrendous thought of highlighting my entire manuscript-in-progress. But after some internal processing and a few sugary treats, I started to see the wisdom of the process. It was a struggle, but now I have to admit I feel a teensy bit of excitement, a little surge of adrenaline causing tingly sensations all over my body, when I pull out my handful of bright highlighters and get ready to mark up a scene.

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