FAIRYTALES WITH BITE
What Would You Ask Your Characters if you Could is a good exercise. Putting your characters through their paces so to speak helps you to know them really well and so you should then write (for/about) them more convincingly. I share three questions that could be useful for you to ask your “people”.
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When Push Comes to Shove continues the theme of knowing your characters well enough to write (for/about) them convincingly. And putting your characters through hell is a good way to find out what they are really well enough and whether they are strong enough to be in your story. A weak character still has the potential to be in your story just as long as they are crucial to the plot.
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I discuss the snow that’s due tomorrow, how it will make for a good evening in for reading, and how weather can be used as a character in itself in fiction. I don’t do this myself but the best example is in The Lord of the Rings I think.
A cold night = more reading perhaps. Image via Pixabay.
Allison Symes: Collected Works 