In a Story, How Do You Inject Life Into Inanimate Objects?

Question by Chadwick De Las Casas: In a Story, How Do You Inject Life Into Inanimate Objects?
To all the writers out there, here is a question for advanced story writing.

What techniques can be used to inject life into an otherwise inanimate object? While this is rather simple in movie making (I turn to the Hunchback of Notre Dame where the cathedral itself had its own life exemplified through shots suggesting that the cathedral was watching and judging Frullo), it is rather elusive and difficult in the context of literature.

How, in a prolonged story or novel, does one give life to an object that never moves, speaks, or thinks, but you desire to make a character itself?

Best answer:

Answer by lilykdesign
The only way I can answer this question is, use your imagination. The figurative language you are referring to is the direct result of the author’s highly vivid imagination. It’s not even something you think about much, anything is possible in the mind of an author and nothing is truly inanimate.

I’ll write a brief paragraph, just off the top of my head, to show you what I mean.

She moved gently through through the room, lightly touching each object as she passed. The bright, red apples winked at her in the gleaming sunlight and the flowing, lace drapes waved their good byes.

Not the best writing I’ve done, but hopefully you get the idea 🙂

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