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Thursday Seeds: Talk to your Characters
The voices in your head that are your characters… Are you crazy? In a sense, you are, but don’t take yourself to the hospital just yet. Get their names down. If they don’t want you to know them, they shut up real fast. If they don’t care, you can have a conversation that may even tell you about the characters in your next book. If you talk with authors, they will tell you that the best characters have minds of their own. They don’t fit in a sweet box and they usually, if given room, will change your story for the better. You hear all the time as a writer,…
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Thursday Seeds: ADHD? No Problem!
Passive Resistance. Using Obstacles against themselves. Doing this is more active than it sounds. That’s what this whole book I’m reading says. I’m interested in this because the theme of my post today is this: ADHD? No problem! Turn around to the other keyboard. This is the concept or hack that I picked up from Madeline L’ Engle. She also taught me to meditate and write and several other things just from reading her books. One of which is naming your home even if it isn’t a farm. Hers was named Crosswicks. She is a mentor of mine. I’m pretty sure that her discussion on writing tables was in her…
