Tag: show and tell

Neil Gaiman #004: Hit ’em hard!

Jul 12, 2013

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by

Ace Baker

in fancy footwork, fiction, novels, short stories, writing technique

Take a look at how Neil Gaiman piles on the negatives at the beginning of chapter 7 of The Ocean at the End of the Lane: The next day was bad. My parents had both left the house before I woke. It had turned cold, and the sky was a bleak and charmless gray.…