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Want real authenticity with your characters? Walk through the door of your story:
Get to the emotion-point of right before the scene begins.
Letting Your Character Teach You How to Act
What do Murder Duck and Impressionist Berthe Morisot Have to do with Plot?
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How are YOU creating a character-driven novel? Please share with us in the comments below.
An Interview with Janet Lee Carey on Deep Characterization
Many people have been asking me what Deep Characterization is. I know what it is to me, but I wanted to share some of Janet Lee Carey’s thoughts on her Deep Characterization practice,
The Writer as Actor: …aaannnd ACTION
“Attached to the wall below me was a ladder. It must have been for building maintenance people to do whatever it is they do.
The Writer as Actor: Losing and Finding
The expression “to lose yourself” in the part or in the performance, which has so often been used by great artists in the theater,
That Character You Love to Hate
Sometimes it’s the little things…
Writing antagonists can be almost too much fun. Of course, we don’t want to make the ALL bad. We need to show them as balanced human beings.
I have never told you
“I have never told you.” Five words that can deepen your characters, add page-turning plot elements, and shed light on motivation.
When I talk to my characters (and yes,
The Violin Diet
With the Full-Bodied Novelist Retreat coming up this weekend, I’ve been playing the violin again. There is a connection, so stay with me here.
When It’s Hard to Relate
As a writer you know you must allow your characters to live through you as they unfold on the page. But what if the character feels unlike you?
Character Mashup–“Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem, Too”
This poem, by Jim Hall, is one of my favorite mashups, and I often read it in Talking to Your Characters and in Teen Poets at Bellevue College.