 Drama: April 26, 2017 Issue [#8206] |
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This week: Drama-Have We Met Before? Edited by: amy-Finally writing a novel.  
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For every writer their comes a time when you get stuck for ideas. I love these newsletters because I get to experience the writings of others and find out what interesting ideas other people are coming up with. I am happy to share some pieces with you and hope that you get as much enjoyment from reading them as I have.
As for getting stuck, I hope today's editorial will give you some tips. |
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Do you occasionally experience a sense of deja vu when you read a short story or novel? I have. There are just some characters that seem familiar. It makes you wonder if the author has patterned them after some famous literary character. That is certainly a possibility, but there might be something else at work here.
The first thing we learn when studying creative writing in school, or interacting with other authors, is to make you characters believable and vivid. They must seem to leap from the page. The best way to do this is to have a clear picture in your mind of the character as a person. Sometimes it is easier to borrow traits than to imagine them. This might sound like cheating, but it's not. I'll explain.
Any good writer knows to keep a notebook handy at all times to catch and write down ideas that come to mind before they are gone. Mine is in my fanny pack. In a store or restaurant we are surrounded by other people going about their lives. This gives us a chance to observe their traits and actions.
Take note of the way people around you walk, speak and dress. Decide what appeals most to you and combine a number of traits into one full character. What you get from a number of people can culminate into one vivid, life-like character that your reader will see as anyone they might meet in their daily life.
This character is still your creation. You will have taken the characteristics that work well together and put them into one person of your choosing. This is not cheating. Your own imagination is still at work. For any reader to want to know what happens to a character they must feel like they know them. Therefore, they will keep on reading and stay engaged to the end. That is the point of writing; to keep the reader reading.
Use this tool along with your own imagination and give the reader a character they will love, or hate, as the situation calls for. Appeal to your reader's emotions with real, believable characters that they want to know about.
Let your imagination and those around you guide you and give your reader a character and a story they will never forget. |
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