Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Creating characters”
When I begin down the road to a new story, usually that trip starts with deciding who is going to be walking that road with me. I have to come up with characters to bring my story to life. For my recent release, The Song of Sourwood Mountain, I started with a female character who was going to at some …
“I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist.” (Berkeley Breathed) As a writer I have become emotionally involved with many characters that only came into existence because I imagined them and set them down on a story trail. As I …
Here it is late Sunday night and I just realized I usually post something on Sunday nights. It’s been a busy few weeks. I’m writing and writing some more as I try to keep words spilling across my computer monitor and get my new story out of my head. It can get pretty crazy when I have a writing deadline …
“He loves me; he love me not.” Decisions, decisions! When you were a kid, did you ever pluck the petals of a daisy one by one with the “he loves me, he loves me not” chant? I did. Most of the time I didn’t have anybody in mind to love me or not love me. I was too young for …
It’s Sunday night and my book event this afternoon at the Anderson County Library went great. Thanks to all of you reading friends and family who came out to hear me talk about writing about the Sixties in Small Town, America. In my case, that’s Lawrenceburg. When I decided to re-invent myself as a writer for the third or maybe …