How Crafty Can You Be?

Terry here, answering our question on craft: Do you think about craft while you are writing? (how to construct good characters, settings, plot) Or do you just let her rip and worry about that “later?”

 

I’m afraid I’m always zeroed in one thing when I’m writing—getting the characters through their ordeal and to the end. I have great aspirations for being a “crafty” writer, but when I sit down to do a first draft, all those wonderful things I’ve learned in workshops, books about craft, and classes,...