Posts tagged characters
when I kill off a character
Writing Advice: Things To Consider When Planning Your Protagonist’s Death: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/18/writing-advice-_n_3108635.html
(Source: chloeguinan, via thewritershelpers)
(Source: emyrs-blaise, via winterdragon101)
Research - Family Relationships
Huffington Post/Writer's Relief's Writer Wednesday: "How To Kill Off Your Protagonist"
When you’ve reached that point in your story or novel where your main character dies—whether it’s from a disease, fatal accident, murder, or other creative cause—it’s important to handle the death in a way that your readers don’t want to turn away. It’s natural for readers to create an attachment to the central character, and saying good-bye is a hardship we all share. To make the death of your main character a little easier to bear, the following are points of advice to consider when crossing this difficult literary hurdle.
(Source: prompts-and-pointers)
how I feel when I base an antagonist on someone irl
The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.
(via literary-hack)
I don’t remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.
