Hello my lovely readers.Today we have here to blog the author if Dark Heirloon, J.D.Brown!
Exaggerating
for Entertainment by J.D. Brown
I
love to exaggerate because it’s fun. I do it often in day to day speech without
realizing it most of the time. It’s actually become a trait among the women in
my family – along with sarcasm, but that’s a story for another time.
When
I write, I have to be conscious of my exaggeration streak. Not because I need
to cut it out, but because I need to add it in!
Exaggerating
in written words can make a scene more fun and more memorable, which is great
when there is something specific you want the readers to remember for later.
But like many things, it’s a balancing act. If your characters exaggerate
everything all the time, they begin to lose their credibility and the reader
starts to gloss over most of what the character does and says. Therefore, I
need to be selective.
There
also comes a second problem with exaggerating. In a contemporary story, if you
read a line like “The fish was as big as
a house!” the reader will of course chuckle and roll their eyes, knowing
that there is really no such thing as a house-sized fish. But problems can
occur when we read this same sentence in a paranormal story where the rules of
life are different.
If
there are vampires and witches in the story, couldn’t there also be giant fish?
Well, sure there could be. So how does the reader know the author was exaggerating
there?
I’ll
give you a better example…I have a bad habit of saying my character “flew out the door” to indicate that
they left the room very quickly. The problem with that is my vampires can
literally fly through doors! So how do the readers know when I’m speaking
literally or metaphorically? They don’t. I have to delete the metaphorical
flying in favor of the literal flying or my readers will hate me.
But
some instances, like the fish, can get away with a little fun exaggeration so
long as I’m careful not paint a literal picture and lay out the rules of my
fictional world.
You
can bet I used this tactic in my novel Dark
Heirloom. If you’re one of those readers that love hunting for clues in a
story, I suggest you start there. And that’s the only clue I’ll give you about
my clues. *Wink*
About the Author:
J.D. Brown graduated from the International Academy of
Design and Technology with a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts. She currently lives
in Wisconsin with her two Pomeranians. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago,
her writing is influenced by the multicultural urban society of her youth which
she continues to visit each summer. J.D. loves paranormal characters; from
vampires and werewolves, demons and angels, to witches and ghosts. Her writings
are often a combination of suspense and romance. J.D. enjoys helping and
promoting her fellow writers and leads an active life on the web. She also
writes erotic romance for the MuseItHOT division under the pen name Danielle
Ravencraft.
Links:
Website: http://authorjdbrown.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/AuthorJDBrown
Genre: Urban Fantasy
“You’re a vampire” is so not what Ema Marx wants to hear when she wakes from
a two-day coma in a cryptic yet exquisite castle in northern Finland.
Unfortunately, it explains a lot. Like why she’s able to see in the dark and walk through solid
objects. What she doesn’t understand is why the other vampires expect her to
have all the answers. It’s their fault she turned into one of them…right?
Jalmari’s hatred for his old-man intensifies when he’s ordered to bring that troublesome girl to their
castle. He has a clan to run; there’s no time for babysitting newborn vampires no matter how they were
converted to their culture. But when a two-thousand-year-old premonition
threatens to take the crown and his life, Jalmari sees no other choice than to
take out the catalyst, Ema Marx. Fortunately for Ema, she could also be the
clan’s only savior.
The race to figure out her vampiric origins is on. And
maybe she’ll get the hang of the blood-drinking gig along the
way…
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