female armenian revolutionary [1916]

06 Wednesday Mar 2013

Posted by babylon crashing in Armenia, Illustration and art

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Armenian Genocide, Ottoman Turkey, The Young Turks

2 thoughts on “female armenian revolutionary [1916]”

coyotero2112 said:

March 6, 2013 at 1:06 pm

This a break from your norm. Like the story and the plot. A suggestion from a nit-picking ex English professor…make dialogue work for characterization. Give a unique voice to the main characters. Some people talk in whole sentences, and formally, often old people or officials…some people talk in half sentences, one word sentences, flowery speech, colloquialisms, etc. Makes them unique and saves on the less dramatic elements of storytelling – exposition and thought. Oh, yuch…I’m getting academic and boring. Medication time !
Later….
- ch3mical r3nt boy said:
  
  March 6, 2013 at 2:26 pm
  
  Thank you! To be honest fiction writing does not come easily for me, but one needs to learn somehow, so I’m sharing this so I can learn. I showed a story I had written once to my mom and she handed me a page on proper use of semicolons. I suppose that sums up my skill level rather nicely, actually.
  
  I’m writing this because no one (as far as I know in English, at least) has written about the Armenian resistance movement that was happening at the time of the 1915 genocide. The story might not go any further than this blog but I find the exercise interesting and hope at least it’s not too chaotic in the craft to make it illegible. We shall see. Thank you reading it, though. Cheers!