Confession: My Own Worst Enemy

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01/20/20 • 11 min

I realized something.
The blog that brought me back to writing is also the thing I'm using to keep me from working on the projects I really want. Why? Lot's of reasons. People like it, and it feels good to do work people like. But there's more to it than that. A lot more.
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How exactly do you make a fully realized character without writing a thousand pages?
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Prewriting is a very individual thing, but that doesn't mean there aren't some fundamentals to remember. Join me as we take a dive into prewriting and start building those characters!

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That Magic Moment

What Comes First? The Plot? Or The Characters?
The answer is simple, but it might not be what you think.
Plot is what happens when great characters are allowed to walk around and do their thing. When we structure our plot before we have fully developed characters, we end up with a half-formed puzzle and we start carving our characters to be what we need to fill our plot. That's why we have plot armor, flat characters, and that notorious hand of the writer effect.
But how do you know when your characters are ready? How do you know when you've reached that magic moment?
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