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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (US New York, New Jersey, Bronx, Brooklyn)Transcript
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Words are crazy. No really by changing just a few words in a story, we can completely change the mood, the perspective and sometimes even the plot, let's check out how related words that are usually found together can fit together to set a scene or create a specific mood. For example, if we're writing a story about a girl going to school, you might expect to see other words in the story, like backpack, homework classroom and things like that. But what happens if we replace just one of those words with something you might not expect. For example, we could replace the backpack in the story with a samurai sword and suddenly you would expect a very different kind of story. If each of these colors here represents a theme, we can see how swapping one word with another causes the plot of the story to go in a whole new direction. Usually we use related words that fit subject setting or theme of a story. But what else can related words? Do you ask words that usually go together can be used to set the mood of a story. For example, the story about the girl going to school might contain words describing a pretty average day words, like thoughtful witty and humorous, could describe the character in the story or the people she interacts with. However, if our character's backpack is replaced with a samurai sword, you might be more likely to find words like bold, fierce and determined. You can see that we can use individual words to do more than just make changes to a character or plot. But we can also alter the overall feeling of a story. Something you can experiment with is combining words in ways the reader might not expect messing with the reader's expectations. For example, if our story about school began with something like a little girl was happily skipping to school in her brand new dress, we probably expect the rest of the story to be about a pretty normal day. But if the next line of the story is the huge samurai swords strapped to her back, cast a long shadow on the other side of the alley, things get a lot darker and more exciting. Now it's your turn to start messing around with words.