“WHAT’S THE POINT of writing prompts?” a writer friend asked me. “Why should I write about, I don’t know, a salt shaker or some other random object?” I saw her point. She was in the middle of the third draft of her novel, and she knew what problems she still had to tackle, more or…
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Exploring Your Main Character
WHO IS THE PROTAGONIST of your story? Sometimes as you are building a story—outlining, writing notes, running through scenes in your mind—you realize that the main character is not the most interesting character. This might prompt you to change your protagonist. After all, any story can be told from any viewpoint. The main criteria is…