Jeff Kalac
Embrace it! For the longest time, I'd set down to write something new... and it turned into a contest with myself over how long I would watch that blinking cursor, sitting on its blank field of white page, before I'd give up and watch re-runs of "Cheers."
One day, I got a little tired of that. I typed a random character name and gave him a single action. I then had to ask myself, "Why is he doing that?" That led to a second sentence, and a third, then a fourth. It became part of my writing style, even on those occasions when I happened to know what my character's full backstory was. Most of my chapters and sections, you'll notice, have the character do something in the first sentence.
One day, I got a little tired of that. I typed a random character name and gave him a single action. I then had to ask myself, "Why is he doing that?" That led to a second sentence, and a third, then a fourth. It became part of my writing style, even on those occasions when I happened to know what my character's full backstory was. Most of my chapters and sections, you'll notice, have the character do something in the first sentence.
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