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Courting Your Characters: Subconscious Writing

Courting Your Characters: Subconscious Writing

I think of writing as a courtship with my characters. I often ask them questions out loud and usually, after some wrangling, these personas will reveal themselves by page 40. By that point, if I don’t know their deepest desires and what they’ll regret most on their deathbed, I know I am in trouble, that […]

October 24, 2016 | By Taylor Larsen | 2 Replies More

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