By Ellen Potter

LEARN HOW to write down just like the specialists, FROM THE specialists.  Practical suggestion in an ideal package deal for younger aspiring writers. After receiving letters from lovers requesting writing advice,accomplished authors Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter joined jointly to create this guidebook for younger writers. The authors combine inspirational anecdotes with sensible counsel on how to define a voice, enhance characters and plot,make revisions, and conquer writer’s block. enjoyable writing activates may also help younger writers jump-start their very own tasks, and encouragement all through will hold them at paintings.

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Tell me about your family. ll. What does your bedroom look like? 12. What do you think of yourself when you look in the mirror? 13. What's the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you? 14. Do you have a crush on anyone? 15. What do you really, REALLY want more than anything else in the world. Now pay attention. Here is the number one most important question you can ask your character. Ready? 27 Heart's Desire by Ellen Discovering what your character wants-I mean really, really wants-is the single most important thing you can find out about your character.

This person interests you, and you'd like to get to know him or her better. I choose my characters the way I choose my friends. They interest me. I may even admire them in certain ways. They may not be perfect-in fact, they're more interesting if they aren't-but I definitely want to know them better. So I write about them. Hmmm, You Look Familiar: Basing Your Character on Someone You Know by Ellen There's nothing wrong with basing your character on someone you know, providing you make the character different enough from the real person so that no one gets offended.

Without a vivid, interesting, authentic main character, even the best story idea will fall flat. You can certainly create a character to fit your ingenious story idea; just be sure to let him or her idea finder develop fully. For example, let's say you're dying to write If you are fresh out of about an abused horse that ingenious ideas-or any refuses to be tamed. You're probably going to want to create a main character who is able to tame that horse, right? 23 ideas at a/l-check out Section 6, "Biackberries, Raspberries, and Story Ideas," on page 34.

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