Epiphany for the day
getting a head-start for the 6th as well, are you?
Possibly, but no.
I just finished Kristin Cashore's Fire (at long last) and something struck me. A realization about most really good stories out there. It wasn't so much an "Aha!" moment as it was an instance of "Well, clearly," something subconscious that finally took shape in words, something I realized because I think Kristin does it really well in Fire.
When you're writing a story, it's not enough to chase your character up a tree and throw rocks and other mean things at her until she figures a way down. You need to get yourself a copse, or a forest if it suits your tale and do the same to your secondary and tertiary characters. The other instance I can think of, because of its immediacy and my familiarity with it is Jean's WIP. Each character has their own trials and tribulations throughout the story and they each work to further the plot, never bogging it down or boring the reader.
I'm trying to figure out if I've already been doing this, or whether this is something I need to remedy.
I think this requires some investigation.
Possibly, but no.
I just finished Kristin Cashore's Fire (at long last) and something struck me. A realization about most really good stories out there. It wasn't so much an "Aha!" moment as it was an instance of "Well, clearly," something subconscious that finally took shape in words, something I realized because I think Kristin does it really well in Fire.
When you're writing a story, it's not enough to chase your character up a tree and throw rocks and other mean things at her until she figures a way down. You need to get yourself a copse, or a forest if it suits your tale and do the same to your secondary and tertiary characters. The other instance I can think of, because of its immediacy and my familiarity with it is Jean's WIP. Each character has their own trials and tribulations throughout the story and they each work to further the plot, never bogging it down or boring the reader.
I'm trying to figure out if I've already been doing this, or whether this is something I need to remedy.
I think this requires some investigation.