Now just for the record, it’s important to make one thing perfectly clear: I’m not a parent. I can’t remember the last time I changed a diaper. And I’ve never had to decide how much freedom to give a teenager, or when to take away the keys to the family car. So you may decide [...]
Posts Tagged ‘character development’
Yes, Dear: Listening to My Characters
September 8th, 2011
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It’s so easy to forget how hard it is to create. Once the building blocks are in place and the story’s on the page, once I know (at least in a rough drafty way) what’s going to happen next, it all seems so obvious. Now that I’m struggling with a new story and a new [...]
