Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Jan 08 2015
It's the season for coughing and plotting.
There is no vaccine for the persistent coughing bug that recently made a stop at our house during its winter travels. We coughed until our muscles were sore. The rooms were a sad trail of throat lozenge packaging, tissue boxes, emptied tea mugs and overflowing waste cans. Speaking caused an increase in coughing, so we lounged in front of the TV and quietly caught up on episodes of home improvement shows and a season's worth of The Good Wife.
I wondered how this or that story character I've known would handle being tossed into a room with a fellow story character on an occasion when both of them had the same ailment. They might be friends, lifelong enemies, business rivals or hunter and prey. It would be a great way to crank up tension in a story and would give an excellent opportunity to show the coping and negotiating skills of both characters.
Of course, things can never be too simple with fiction. Throw in a third character and see what develops.
posted at: 11:18 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
There is no vaccine for the persistent coughing bug that recently made a stop at our house during its winter travels. We coughed until our muscles were sore. The rooms were a sad trail of throat lozenge packaging, tissue boxes, emptied tea mugs and overflowing waste cans. Speaking caused an increase in coughing, so we lounged in front of the TV and quietly caught up on episodes of home improvement shows and a season's worth of The Good Wife.
I wondered how this or that story character I've known would handle being tossed into a room with a fellow story character on an occasion when both of them had the same ailment. They might be friends, lifelong enemies, business rivals or hunter and prey. It would be a great way to crank up tension in a story and would give an excellent opportunity to show the coping and negotiating skills of both characters.
Of course, things can never be too simple with fiction. Throw in a third character and see what develops.
posted at: 11:18 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
