Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Tue, Dec 17 2013
Pressure fits perfectly into a writer's tool belt.
Our day-to-day pressures often consist of little things that influence bigger decisions. If you're trying to help a child with homework while you're battling sinus pain amd trying to cook dinner plus give a pill to a reluctant cat, it's probably a rotten time to concentrate on making an offer on that house in the beautiful neighborhood with the great school. But, wouldn't you know it? That's when the real estate agent calls to say that you've got to make a lush offer in the next hour or you risk losing out to an all-cash buyer.
When your main character is stressed in all the ways you can reasonably pile onto her fictional life, that's the time to force her to choose a direction at that big fork in the road. It's one more way your readers will identify with the kind of pressure your character is facing. Sometimes we (rhetorically) ask if our already difficult day could get any worse. If we ask that about our character(s), the answer is, "It can, and it should."
posted at: 09:07 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
Our day-to-day pressures often consist of little things that influence bigger decisions. If you're trying to help a child with homework while you're battling sinus pain amd trying to cook dinner plus give a pill to a reluctant cat, it's probably a rotten time to concentrate on making an offer on that house in the beautiful neighborhood with the great school. But, wouldn't you know it? That's when the real estate agent calls to say that you've got to make a lush offer in the next hour or you risk losing out to an all-cash buyer.
When your main character is stressed in all the ways you can reasonably pile onto her fictional life, that's the time to force her to choose a direction at that big fork in the road. It's one more way your readers will identify with the kind of pressure your character is facing. Sometimes we (rhetorically) ask if our already difficult day could get any worse. If we ask that about our character(s), the answer is, "It can, and it should."
posted at: 09:07 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
