As a writer, how do you get to know your characters? I’ve found that interviewing mine is a great way to get to the bottom of their personalities, but sometimes it takes some digging. If you haven’t ever tried writing interviews with your characters, here are ten questions or directions to try steering the conversation.
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Some of you may have seen this YouTube video going around, but for those who haven’t, here are the emotional stages of writing a novel. Enjoy! I’m on the road today, heading for a friend’s son’s wedding. Enjoy your weekend 🙂
My friend Margaret is running an intensive workshop at Forward Motion this month about the use of an outline for revising a novel (or short story). I decided to begin work on my 2006 Nano, The Girl Who Cried Squid to take advantage of the workshop, so I’ve been spending time beginning the analysis of…
Big talk here about being a writer, and I’ve been stalled for weeks. I refuse to call it writer’s block, because mostly it’s not. Some days the problem has been sheer laziness, other days it’s exhaustion (yesterday, for instance), sometimes it’s been distraction (lots of that), and a few days it’s even been because I…
I don’t seem to be a consistent blogger at the best of times, but when I’m not first draft writing, I’m even worse than usual. Maybe it’s because I don’t have any great progress to report? Could be. December isn’t turning out exactly like I’d planned. (Does any month? Never mind, I don’t want to…
that the guard now has a name. Hereinafter he shall be known as Chiioke. I gave in this morning and re-did the outline (again). It’s something like its fourth incarnation, and there are some serious holes coming in the climatic scenes. I know who all has to play the game for those scenes, and what…
I thoroughly enjoyed reading through *Quest to be Queen*, and am quite excited to start writing on it again tomorrow. Even the part that seemed to drag while I was writing doesn’t seem so bad nearly three months later. (Maybe because I’ve recently met writing that really DID drag!) That and a crit and my…