Writing “real” people

[karen_w_newton]

I have a weakness for British mysteries. I like mysteries the same way I like crosswords, as puzzles to solve, and I'm something of an Anglophile, so the two in combination are hard for me to resist. Yesterday I bought a mystery by an author I had never read. The book was marked down to $2.99 but I still got the free sample first, because three

Comments

[peadarog]

"Athena syndrome" is an excellent name for it :)

[bogwitch64]

Plot might be the bones, but character is the flesh of the story.

I love this! It's going on my corkboard of writerly wisdom.

[karen_w_newton]

Thank you! And BTW, I finished FINDER. I liked the story. No Athena syndrome there!

The Kindle version had no formatting errors that I could see. There is no table of contents, but that's not unusual with novels. Every chapter started on a new "page" so that was good; the only thing that didn't work was the "next chapter" function where you can jump to the start of the next chapter, but I think that's dependent on a ToC.

[bogwitch64]

Ah, yes! The ToC. I don't think I had one. I suppose I could have!

I'm glad you liked the story, lovey. Thanks!

[tracy_d74]

is your corkboard a corkwall? i'm just curious. ;)

[tracy_d74]

Athena Syndrome. Nice. I like to know WHY are character is. I think that is why in a series, I always like the book(s) with backstories.

[karen_w_newton]

Yeah. It doesn't have to be overt or a big deal, but it helps if a character thinks about his past every now and then.

[tracy_d74]

I agree.