"Without characters there's no story."
~
Karl Iglesias,
Writing for Emotional Impact
"When I hit a real block, I find it's usually because I've...said something false or made a character do what he doesn't want to do."
~
Anne Tyler
About a year ago, I was listening to a guest speaker -- let's call him Tom -- at a writer's group. He was talking about characters.
"In the first half of your story," he said, "let your characters do what they want. But when you get to the second half, you've got to re...
Published on June 09, 2010 19:55