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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My book group met Sunday night to discuss Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. We noticed that, as in The Goldfinch, the resolution seems to hinge on the narrator becoming a writer and writing a book—the very book we are holding! Although I loved this in Penumbra, the rest of my writing group did not. Perhaps it
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