Hello everyone. I hope you all had a pleasant holiday and are excited about the New Year. I am taking my first shot at sci-fi and I am writing a group of scenes that include: an escape, a spaceshuttle crash, and someone discovering the survivor. I have the bare basics written, but I would love to see what input you guys had.
I'm trying to figure out how to describe the action as well as the crash. What I have currently is really bland. Any helpful keywords, etc.
I'm afraid this is too general for any specific advices. It could be useful for you to read a story or more with similar settings and situations and find your inspiration there.
Keywords are not going to help you that much. Making a crash evocative and/or exciting is more about the structure of the paragraphs and sentences.
This is kind of what it means to be a writer. Not to make you feel bad, but I'm sure everyone grapples with how to describe something. You just sit there looking at your monitor like a dork until something comes. It gets easier, but not without a struggle.
I would recommend fulfilling the requirements for the Review Room (looks like you have enough posts, but there's the review requirement and there may be a days since first post requirement?) and then posting an excerpt for comments. I know that doesn't sound all that helpful, but this is a question that requires a very specific answer based on your writing style, and that's really only doable in the Review Room.
