While googling for articles about developing goals for my novel’s characters, I chanced upon a how-to for personal goal setting. I’ve blown my deadlines a couple of times, but it’s nice that she added that bit about being kind to ourselves. Because aren’t we all our own worst critics? Another one from Disher: It is [...]
Archive for July 25th, 2010
Goal setting for aspiring writers
Posted in Epiphanies and musings, How-to, tagged inspiration, planning process on 25 July 2010 | 1 Comment »
Note to self: give my characters goals
Posted in Things to do, tagged Character analysis on 25 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
yWriter (and I’ll talk about that lovely, God-send freeware some day) has space in each character profile to enter that character’s goals. Just read Character External Goals: Why Characters Need Super-Objectives for Their Story Arcs. Something else to work on.
How to: form your plot and character
Posted in How-to, Things to do, tagged Character analysis, planning process, Plot development on 25 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So here’s what I tried last night. I asked 2 things of each of my characters yesterday: What is it about the nature and personality of [insert character here] that makes him/her choose one action over another? How has the character changed by the end of the book? So far, so good. I’ve written short [...]
Introducing structure to my writing
Posted in Epiphanies and musings, tagged Character analysis, planning process, writing technique on 25 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve entitled this draft “By the book”, only because that’s precisely what I’m trying to do with this version. With the last 2 magnum opi (heh) and the countless other small ones before those, I had grabbed the bull by its proverbial horns and simply started writing. Only to find that it’s one thing to [...]
