Comments on: The Dance of the Seven Veils https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-dance-of-the-seven-veils/ Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:02:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-dance-of-the-seven-veils/#comment-2669 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:02:26 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=426#comment-2669 Veronica – good having discussions like this eh? After this post and looking at all the comments, I’ve gone back to my wip and have fiddled more with it. I love blogs. 🙂
Outlining chapters is probably a great idea. I’m a pantser though so it’s hard enough for me just to get a synopsis down first. Maybe I should give it a go.

]]> By: veronicasand https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-dance-of-the-seven-veils/#comment-2668 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:19:27 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=426#comment-2668 Interesting post and comments. I too love the veil analogy. I’ll have remember that. I tend to think of it as pacing, maybe because I also read a lot of mysteries. I outline my chapters before I write them. Not necessarily all at once; sometimes just a couple at a time. In general, I think it helps to think about this from the beginning.

Mind you, I just finished my first full-length novel and probably made many mistakes. After reading this, I’m not sure if I have enough IC.

Anyway, I enjoyed this dialogue. Thought provoking stuff.

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-dance-of-the-seven-veils/#comment-2667 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:30:06 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=426#comment-2667 Suzanne – I think trying to remember all of these things is where I’m going wrong! Perhaps there is such a thing as too much craft! 🙂

]]> By: Suzanne Jones https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-dance-of-the-seven-veils/#comment-2666 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:00:17 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=426#comment-2666 There’s just so much to think about – that’s probably where I’ve been going wrong all these years, forgetting to remember all the different things that go into a story.

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]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-dance-of-the-seven-veils/#comment-2665 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:14:48 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=426#comment-2665 Francine – wow, that’s a cool comment! Want to read this book now! Yep, go the category romance eh?

]]> By: Francine https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-dance-of-the-seven-veils/#comment-2664 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:11:22 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=426#comment-2664 Hi,

Love the post!

Late in with veiled veiling, but have to say veiled implication through character thought-mode can be utilised to reveal a mere hint of intrigue without actually giving away mystery/secret element!

Sounds complicated – it’s not.

Take a character who may have experienced something traumatic that happened in the past, (not the usual death of a partner plot -more original than that)and life isn’t exactly perfect with a broken romance out of the window.

Then something happens to change that heroine’s life seemingly for the better – everything going swimmingly until something said which triggers fear, fear of exposure! .

Worse, the ex boyfriend turns up. The hero hasn’t given up on the heroine, and although the reader already knows about his past, nothing is black and white where he’s concerned either.

The heroine meantime is torn between duty to an employer and love for her ex, her employer with hidden agenda and most of his secrets from the past revealed in full to the heroine. so on and so forth.

A tragedy occurs and all the veiled implications “that nothing is quite as it seems”, which the heroine has teased the reader with are finally woven together and revealed in the last few paragraphs.

In that moment when the veil falls away, (literary sense) the hero is stunned because he thought his movie star mask was a great disguise but hers knocks him sideways!

Yep, veiled snippets of info keep one turning the pages, that’s why I love writing category romance with a thriller-like thrill factor for added tension!

best
F

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-dance-of-the-seven-veils/#comment-2663 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:41:31 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=426#comment-2663 Robyn – hey, that’s something I hadn’t thought about. Good point! Must go away and get some veil fluttering happening. 😉

]]> By: Robyn https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-dance-of-the-seven-veils/#comment-2662 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:43:25 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=426#comment-2662 Jackie, the beauty of the veils is that they can reveal a lot without actually coming off. The fact that there’s seven and they’re in constant motion means that there can be glimpses into character that then get covered up and revealed again from a different angle. So it’s the fluidity and the subtlety that make all the difference, and give you “more” than just seven layers/veils to work with!

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-dance-of-the-seven-veils/#comment-2661 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:29:57 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=426#comment-2661 Cat – Yes, that’s a great way of looking at it. Hmmm, think I may have made my hero a bit too aware of his motivation… 😉

Amy – great to nail that IC first eh? This story is different – I don’t have any external conflict. I guess they have their external goals do bring them together at the beginning but that’s it. Yes, I do like that point where they think it’s all good but it isn’t really. hehe.

Aideen – yay for sexy veils! I too like a hero like that. Being paid to blog? Where do I sign up?? 😉 Think I’d rather write stories though…

]]> By: Aideen https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-dance-of-the-seven-veils/#comment-2660 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:11:05 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=426#comment-2660 Jackie,

Fabulous way of putting it. And yes, veils are much sexier than layer upon layer of onion skin being shed, makes me think of Shrek! I love me a good reveal so a hero thinking he’s fine and realising he’s not sounds about perfect. And if the Mills & Boon thing doesn’t work out for you, which it ABSOLUTELY will, you could write blogs for a living. Excellent stuff yet again.

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