Tag: character
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So You Want to Write a Story: Time, and the Time Period of Your Story?
The setting of a novel includes not simply where the story takes place, location, but also the time and the time period wherein the change of events occurs. Time and time period, like setting are important dimensions to a story. In many stories they act as additional characters.
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So You Want to Write a Novel: Obstacles
Every good story needs an interesting and compelling character, centered in a riveting set of events that force her or him to reveal their best, and worst qualities. What do we call these set of events that push and prod the major character to show her or his mettle, their tenacious and persevering personality? Obstacles.
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Our Characters’ Fears
Identifying our character’s fears is like uncovering the groundswell of what drives her or him to act and speak as she or he does in order to accomplish their larger goals. On another level it’s like discovering why we feel compelled to write.
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Spiritual Awakening: Every Story is a Journey
Good stories and novels thrive on conflict and tension. All are headed for a climax, an arc, the mountain top experience of transformation. And yet the writer must travel in the opposite direction, deep within her or himself, to cull out the true meaning that supports and belies the words and actions of our protagonist…
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Making Soup
Screenwriter, and Creative Writing teacher of Morningside Writers, Kendall Williams, likens crafting stories and novels to setting about to make soup. We discussed the two processes in our a today’s special segment of Book Talk, Creativity and Family Matters, Savory Writing: Character and Plot. Two essential ingredients to a savory and aromatic story or novel…
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Radio Show | Savory Writing: A Discussion with Kendall William
Screen writer Kendall Williams of Morningside Writers’ Workshops, and Anjuelle Floyd discuss how creating character and designing plot are like cooking soup. So tune in.
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Inhabiting Your Character: Journeying to the Ends of the Earth
Crafting a novel requires a major character with whom the author is willing to spend at least the next year. Much of the time spent with that character requires inhabiting her or his skin, living inside their situation that we have created. As writers we expend a significant part of the energy of our imagination…