For the Serious Writer - A Course in Revision: Rethinking and Revising Imagery

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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Rethinking and Revising Imagery

Imagery in a novel is essential to lock into the reader’s five senses. When we are vomiting our draft guts out, we sometimes (not sometimes... we do it indubitably) over-image or... under-image. Providing imagery for the reader is what we are about as novelists. Without similes or metaphors —without... Sign in to see full entry.

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