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If you are coming here from my newsletter, scroll down to the last, bold paragraph . . . Writing happens first in the unconscious mind. In From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction, Robert Olen Butler says to write first thing, before you encounter language in any of its analytical or “useful” or logical modes. […]
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We’ve been looking at motivation in Craft Class, and one thing that is evident is that motivation is expressed in action. We all know this. We do not believe what people proclaim, we believe what they do. Self-analysis goes only so far, and the more it goes on, the less we rely on what we
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What drives your character? Story involves characters who have some motivation, something that moves them forward. Desire, wish, need, problem and the motivation to seek a solution. This can’t simply be announced: we wouldn’t believe it. It has to be felt and enacted. Motivation is the agent of change, and change is the key to
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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 reason I know this happens again
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