The best answer is “when you are making an observation.” While writing an autobiography, you are describing events in your past. If you are observing something, you must distinguish these insights and conclusions from the timeline of events you have been describing.
Q. What is an exploded moment in a story?
We exploded a baseball moment. “Exploding a moment “ is what writing teacher Barry Lane calls it when writers take an important moment from a narrative and approach it like a filmmaker treats an important movie in a film… in slow motion.
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- Q. What is an exploded moment in a story?
- Q. What is an example of an exploding moment?
- Q. What is shrink a century?
- Q. When you explode a moment you _____ use dialogue to make the writing come alive expand a description by telling more about what happened add factual information to make your writing more accurate identify people and places to provide additional details?
- Q. How do you write an exploding moment?
- Q. What is important to remember about exploding the moment?
- Q. How do you write sensory details?
Q. What is an example of an exploding moment?
For example, you might find a sentence like, “It was so embarrassing,” or “He shot the winning goal,” where you’ve got an important moment that you could expand. Highlight that sentence and then expand that moment into a full paragraph, explode it, (but without the grenade or bomb).
Q. What is shrink a century?
Shrinking a century is simply a writing strategy one may employ in which time is condensed by omitting details and focusing instead on meaning. For instance, you could write, “She died,” but that that’s deadly boring and doesn’t really represent the magnitude of the experience.
Q. When you explode a moment you _____ use dialogue to make the writing come alive expand a description by telling more about what happened add factual information to make your writing more accurate identify people and places to provide additional details?
When a person “explodes a moment” it means that they expand the description by telling more about what happened. It can also be called stretching the truth. The correct option is C.
Q. How do you write an exploding moment?
Key ingredients for exploding a moment in your writing include: “Writer’s BINOCULARS:” fine tuning your observations, using your senses to focus on the smallest details. Making the blurry details clear! “SNAPSHOTS:” SHOW don’t TELL—paint a picture, freeze an image with your words.
Q. What is important to remember about exploding the moment?
Exploding a moment helps to slow down the narrative and gives a sensory experience to the reader. That is exactly what you want your reader to experience through your writing.
Q. How do you write sensory details?
The sensory details you select in your writing should create for your reader the same picture you have in your mind. Instead of using vague, general words, your sensory language should be concrete and sensory-packed. This makes the difference between vivid and vague language.
