Okay, most important way to build a character is to NOT PUT EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT THE CHARACTER INTO THE WORK, right? Right. Now. I favor building a character from the ground up, not from my brain down. By that, I mean that I like…
Category: Writing
There are WAY more than 5 ways to generate tension, but I try to bring these blog posts in at under fifty billion words, so…. These are good ways to generate tension biggity or bitty. You do know that every scene needs tension, don’t you,…
As if it isn’t enough that we writers have to figure out what characters do, we also have to figure out why characters do what they do. Can’t they do anything for themselves? Some writers say, yes, their characters take over and do stuff and…