Old Book Club Thread - Check out the New One!

"swcheppes;13843943" wrote:
I'm making my way through Iron bound and I'm amazed that this was made with sims! It could be it's own expansion pack. I'm only a few chapters in but the chapters are a nice length and a delightful read!

I'm so into the writing in Ironbound--Chapter 9, where Nakaia is introduced--her voice! Those descriptions hooked me.

One thing I love about Ironbound is how the reveal is handled. When I write, I never know how much to show or reveal at a time and how much to explain and so on. In Ironbound, @Munterbacon simply dives in, lets us figure out stuff as we go along, putting the pieces together to construct the world, and this works so effectively! I love the way my mind feels while I'm putting together all these details.

Rory does something similar, too, in that the entire world, the characters, and the plot are already developed--and we are able to interact with the story while we figure it out.

Jes does that in FISH, also.

And then--now and then, we'll get explanatory pieces, like Rory's character lists, and the non-chapters of Munterbacon, where he's presenting descriptions of the races, and so on.

As a reader, I find these techniques so engaging, and as a writer, reading them is instructive!