Tag: motivates your characters
Two Stages of Creating A Believable Character
Creating a believable character for your story begins with an initial idea, but the process of developing her into a complex, real personality will require thought and research.
Writing three-dimensional characters
In your attempt to create characters your readers crave, these five steps can help you get to know and understand your players well enough to write living, breathing three-dimensional characters on the page.
Don’t start cold – five ways to ease into writing a book
For me, it’s way too intimidating to just start crafting a book with the first word of the first sentence, so I've learned how to release the valve to set my ideas and words free. Here are five ways I start writing a book to warm up, ease into it, and do some crucial background work so my story will truly come to life.
A Lesson In Storytelling From The Ultimate Dog Tease
Sometimes, what makes for great stories – or viral videos – is a simple thread of "and then" questions being raised, answered, and raised again. Here's a lesson in storytelling from a hungry dog.
The Jungle Book: Beautiful Film, Flawed Storytelling
This storyteller finds six cracks in the new Jungle Book that mar the narrative in this visually enchanting movie, providing a lesson in how to construct a story by ensuring your characters' motivations and choices are consistent and believable.
How much physical description is enough when you create characters?
When you create characters, how far should you go to individualize their physical descriptions? What is absolutely necessary for the depiction?
Am I Really An Author?
Maybe that's part of the nagging sensation I'm fighting, that I'm not really an author. And until I finish my first book, I guess that's true. What makes an author? Having a great story to tell? Having the ability to craft the words and descriptions to make it come alive? Sure, that and a finished manuscript.
