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Ignore Your Character?

14.07.2010

Okay, ignore may be misleading. New ideas, for me, come via a character. My protagonist is the first thing that shows him or herself. And, up to now, I’ve been going with that character and focusing on him or her. But I also have such a difficult time with first drafts that I keep thinking [...]

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Woolgathering

10.07.2010

I have a bone to pick with Webster. I looked up the definition of woolgathering and found: an indulgence in aimless thought or dreamy imagining. Indulgence? Aimless thought? That’s absurd. There’s nothing aimless about thinking. Especially when thinking, imagining, and musing are such important writers’ tools. In a previous post I talked about finding the time [...]

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Questions, I Get Questions…

04.07.2010

My students ask a lot of questions. One they consistently ask is: How do I find the time to write? Some questions have no definitive answer. This is one of those questions. A lot depends on your life, your family situation, work, etc. Oh, and probably your personality. But I’ve cobbled together a list of [...]

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A Scene Is Not A Story

05.06.2010

I see a lot of new writers’ work. I edit a lot of it, too. And what I see a lot of are scenes—scenes in lieu of stories. Often, these scenes are well thought out and well done. But they are not stories. The difficulty is the writer thinks they are. The difficulty is getting [...]

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