by Angie Powers | Apr 28, 2014 | Daily Prompt, reading, Trade Secrets, Write Your Book, writing
My kids and I are reading the Harry Potter books for the first time. One of the techniques J.K. Rowling uses again and again is this: something is happening, characters are reacting to it, but we readers don’t quite know what is going on. We are catching up. The...
by Elizabeth | Apr 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Here’s a three minute video about concrete character desire, with an example from The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. It’s powerful to see what a character wants played out in concrete, literal terms, demonstrated in the actions he’ll take to...
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