expectations – Allison Symes: Collected Works

FAIRYTALES WITH BITE

As well as sharing the link to tonight’s Chandler’s Ford Today post, in Likes and Dislikes I look at how these can be used to create a good back story for your characters. Why a character likes or dislikes something can also be revealing.

THIS WORLD AND OTHERS

In Expectations, I look at how even relatively minor expectations can again show a lot about your characters, especially when expectations are disappointed. Just how does your character react and why?

CHANDLER’S FORD TODAY

I write a piece annually looking at various aspects of Christmas. What I Like (and Dislike) about Christmas is this year’s offering. And one thing I really dislike is tinny music being played in my local shopping centre, let’s have something decent, please!

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As well as sharing the link to my CFT post tonight, I discuss one of my favourite things about Christmas Day.

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FAIRYTALES WITH BITE

In Living Up to Expectations, I look at expectations from a character’s viewpoint. What expectations do they have? What expectations do others have of them? How does their culture shape those expectations? Does anyone challenge them and what are the results?

THIS WORLD AND OTHERS

When Things go Horribly Wrong is something that, in a way, has to happen in every story, regardless of format. After all where is the story? It is in how the characters deal with the crises that have arisen for them. What for them is drama, tragedy even is from the reader’s viewpoint pure entertainment! Heartless lot aren’t we?! So how does your character handle matters when everything appears to have gone down the proverbial spout? How do they pick themselves up again (assuming they do – if they don’t, well that’s a story in itself).

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I take a lighthearted view at alternative titles for children’s classic fiction, list six and challenge you to come up with some in tonight’s post! This came about from a photo from Quercus Books that I shared on Facebook earlier this week. It showed new versions of Famous Five stories – Five Go to Brexit Island, Five Go Gluten Free and so on. This photo has been one of the most popular things I’ve shared so I thought I would extend the idea a little. See what I’ve come up with for my list and then see what you can come up with!

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