Today’s Monday Motivations from Esther Newman comes in the fifth paragraph. Be sure to read the whole post, including how today’s motivation was derived (thank you, Lynn Love!) last week’s submissions.
Esther, thank you so much for writing tips and a motivation! You’re the best!
On Thursday, I quoted Barbara Poelle:
“If you’re struggling with a character, write 20 things that the reader will never know about your character. These will naturally bleed into your writing and provide a richness even though you don’t share the detail”.
I’m always encouraging my students to work on character biographies. Knowing your characters intimately will help you to bring them to life in the book itself. The wonderful Lynn Love contacted me with some great advice to build on this:
“For the book I’m currently writing, I made lists of over 100 questions each for both of my main characters, from obvious things such as what job they do and what papers they’d read to childhood memories, what sweets they’d like and what they were like at P.E at school! Most of it isn’t creeping into the novel, but it gave me a good idea from the…
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