Originally posted on WILDsound Festival:
Are the character relationships in your story authentic? As storytellers, we often look for ways to make our characters as lifelike as possible: we give them internal struggles, external goals, difficult challenges, and hard choices to make, all while raising the stakes and doling out consequences for every action our…
Month: January 2018
Getting Into Character: Fiction Writing Exercises — Writing Forward
Originally posted on WILDsound Festival:
Fiction writing exercises for developing characters. Writers are not actors, but sometimes we need to get into character. To truly understand the nature of a character, a writer must step into that character’s shoes. You can use character sketches and descriptions while you’re creating a character, but the character will…
