I would say the most difficult thing for me to learn as a writer is bringing conflict into my characters' lives and making them suffer. I don't have a problem making things tough for them, but I always want to rescue them by the end of the same scene. This does not make for a very interesting story, so I have lots of sticky notes above my computer reminding me to make my characters really suffer.
..... Ummmm, ran out of things to say here.
See?
I talked about the conflict and the resolution and now this post is over. Not very interesting.
I'll set a goal to do better next week. I'm REALLY good at goal setting, which happens to be next week's topic. (Like the tie-in?)
TTFN!
Happy Monday.
PS Today, Mr. Dickinson and I celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary. I wuv u, honey!
6 comments:
Happy Anniversary:)
I tried to write a suspence once, but kept giving away the clues too easily. Just not my thang...
Happy Anniversary!
Happy Anniversary Sweetie!
I remember when I first started writing. My stories were soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boring. I just loved my characters so much that I couldn't stand the thought of anything bad happening to them. Then Margaret Yang told me that I had to grab my characters by the back of the head and shove their faces in the meat grinder...and hold them there. It was great advice!
Happy Wuv-a-versary!
Conflict. Hard. Well, the definition is right. :)
Hey Congrats!!!! Your anniversary is really close to mine :-)
Conflict conflicts me. That should be on a T-shirt. I think conflict is one of the hardest things to do.
Belated Happy Anniversary, Andrea!
I found something of the opposite problem. I wanted to put my characters through so many different disasters, my first story turned into a 200k epic!
Kim Dare.
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