You Don't Have To Know Everything . . .

I'll begin this post with a quote from author Dina Santorelli:

"Although I feel firmly in control while I write, I never feel like I know everything, or if I'd want to know everything. In fact, one of my favorite things is when I'm asked a question about my book and I don't have a ready answer. I love when the question has me thinking, Hmmm… why DID he do that?…"

I'll make the middle of this post a heart-felt plea for you to go read the whole post that quote came from: Writing Tip #40

And the end of this post is another quote from Dina's post:

"That digging. That trying to understand….there are things that we, ourselves, do that surprise us and stymie us, that we try to make sense of. Our characters, who are really just extensions of ourselves, are no different…"

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