She's brash about her character's violence and flippant about the character's flippant coping strategies. At moments, I sense the writer is acting the character. To convey the truth about a character often takes stepping into the protagonist's shoes, be they flip flops, stilettos or boots to get to know her inside and out well enough to convey her truth. Often that takes exploring the dark side of ourselves. By the 3rd draft, a writer slips on her own shoes and plots a point to the violence by …
Quit Plotting and Write
Get out of your head and into your body and write.Don't worry about being brilliant for now. Stay in the moment of writing the scene. Revel in the partnership with the muse. Writers often complain about how lonely writing is. You're never alone. You're being held up and supported. Let it come.Create a writing goal. Make it specific and achievable. Write it in the present tense as if it has already happened.How many pages today to achieve your writing goal?To attain your goal, surround yourself …
Backstory into Front Story
The front story is determined by the characters’ goals and beliefs and traits.Behind the front story of each character is a unique world made up of all her past experiences. Every well-rounded and fully-developed character has a backstory.Some characters’ backstories are rather banal, like everyone else’s background, past, history. However, the character herself always must be unique or possess a bit of mystery of individuality.A character’s backstory is everything that happens to a character …
Happy Lunar New Year!
This lunar new year celebrates the dragon. You serve yourself well to follow the path of the dragon where rules and regulations are made for other people. This is a time of big ideas and extreme ambition, a time when the creative spark fires in your belly. Be the dragon, fearless in the face of challenges and always successful. Dragons are free and uninhibited. Don't write the story others have written. Write your version of how life works. Be bold. Offer your readers a new and different vision, …
#1 Plot Problem for Writers
I am often asked what the #1 problem writers have with plot. My answer varies, depending on the most recent plot consultation or plot workshop I've just done. Today I say as I have before, the #1 plot problem writers struggle with is the climax and resolution.So much time and thought and writing goes into developing a compelling protagonist with a mysterious back story, deciding where is the exact right beginning of the story, how to make the action exciting and the book concept big, the details …
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