You wrote a furious first half, then faltered. Blocked. You’d set up the situation of your story and put your characters in motion, felt good about what you’d done, and suddenly could not find your way forward. Oh, you could keep writing. You had a plot outline, and you weren’t totally blank, but you didn’t […]
Faced with writer’s block, listen to your minor characters Read More »
My current project is a first attempt to write a story from a single point of view. It seems harder than using multiple viewpoints, that is, having several characters who tell portions of the story as they experience events. Using a single point of view limits choices to what the POV character does, sees, thinks,
POV choices and the External Narrator Read More »
You’re a step ahead, writers, if you instinctively avoid these pitfalls when you introduce characters. I’ve stumbled into most of them. Showing or talking about several new characters in short order, say within a page. Even well-regarded novelists do this at times. Readers with heavy intellect might be able to peg and remember these people
Writing Techniques: Lessons I’ve learned about characters Read More »
