Do your characters play well with others? While writing the first draft you can allow your characters to ‘’take over’ your story, but not so in revision.
Category: Writing
Reviewing 2011: Measuring Success
As I read year-end reviews in the various online magazines and news sites that I follow, I realized that I have never done a year-end review of my own goals for the previous year. How can that be? I am an over-analyzer of epic proportions. I analyze things for my day job, for every major… Continue reading Reviewing 2011: Measuring Success
Are Your Character’s Goals Golden?
The second installment
in Lynette M. Burrows’s “Re-vision Your Story,” discusses how to make your character’s goals golden.
Re-Visioning Your Story
Revision is probably the single most difficult thing a writer must do. Lynette M. Burrows calls it re-visioning and shares six lessons on how to re-vision your story.
Confession Time
It’s confession time. I have watched some of the TV news and TV reality shows about hoarders with disgust. How could anyone allow themselves to get into that kind of a muddle, I ask myself. Is it a physical problem? Maybe they don’t have the time, energy or ability to take care of this stuff.… Continue reading Confession Time