Great, you're going to go on about character realism again, aren't you?

Damn straight I am! But seeing as this is an exercise aimed at writers, it's safe to say that you all already know how important it is for characters to be realistic.  So we're going to take a step back from the narrative process and put our characters on the hotseat.

Challenge ( Read more... )

Ah, memories.  Why are you so important to our characters?

Characters, like people, are made up of all kinds of memories.  While some might be more relevant than others when it comes to storytelling, even the most mundane of memories can still show us all something about our characters we would have never known otherwise.  More importantly, a reader ( Read more... )

I don't even like people.  Why on earth would I want to write about them?:Like any artistic misanthrope, we all have the fantastic curse of knowing we write about that which we despise.  After all, the woman behind you at the Wal Mart checkout who is talking loudly on her cell phone has a story a tell.  It may be the most boring, trivial, stupid ( Read more... )

What exactly has prompted a writing challenge?:

While talking to sanestlunatic  a few days ago, I decided to take it upon myself to help her (and, selfishly, myself) work on original writing.  I'm not going to claim to have any sort of superior knowledge than any of my writer friends on the subject, but I figured if I was going to spend the time coming up with ( Read more... )