The bread and butter of fiction is to create characters that take on a life of their own. Sometimes, though, those spur-of-the-moment actions break your
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Sympathy vs Empathy
It’s very easy to sympathize with your own characters. You created them, and you know them more intimately than any character written by anybody else–everything
First draft and editing–back at work on Before and After the Wedding
It’s funny how each part of the writing process brings such different skills and benefits to it–and downsides too, I suppose. Having just experimented with
How I invent characters
Characters are mysterious creatures, in a way, and I’m sure there are nearly as many ways to invent them as there are authors. For me,
Exhilaration and fear of a First Draft
There’s something almost magical about sitting down to write something new. I often do it with very little idea of what I’m going to be