Posts Tagged ‘characters’
Soundtracks for Your Novels
Posted by: Deborah Ayers on: February 27, 2010
- In: writing
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If you’re anything like me, music is an integral part of your life. I’m one of those people who steps out the door and wishes there was some kind of soundtrack going to greet me along with the day. I also wish that sometimes, an entire street would break out into song like they do [...]
A Spy in the House of Blab
Posted by: Deborah Ayers on: January 17, 2010
- In: writing
- 5 Comments
I LOVE to write dialogue. Nothing else excites me more than the sexually charged banter between my heroes and heroines. I find it so magically delicious I can rarely wait to do it and get all that done long before I write the narrative. Narrative looks like a lot of notes when I first start [...]
Honorary degrees in analysis
Posted by: Kirsten Imani Kasai on: December 1, 2009
Reading your posts, Deb and Ondine, makes me think that we writers ought to have honorary degrees in psychoanalysis. Certainly, we invest much time and thought into understanding our characters’ (clients?) histories and motivations. This discussion has come along at a perfect time. Occasionally, a character gets slippery. I thought I knew them well, but [...]
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