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miete ("thought") + lause ("phrase")
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Emotional acres. We all get an acre all to ourselves. We can do whatever we want with it. Plant flowers, a garden, turn it into a junkyard, a garage sale. If people come in and muck it up, we get to ask them to leave, because this is our acre. When writing a character, develop their acre first.
page: 44
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emotions
characters
Your characters know more about themselves then you do. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. It's that simple.
page: 53
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characters
Find out what each character cares most about in the world because then you will have discovered what's at stake. Find a way to express this discovery in action, and then let your people set about finding or holding onto or defending whatever it is.
page: 55
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characters
plot
"Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to then, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad."
page: 60
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characters
Sometimes you can create interesting characters by simply avoiding cliches.
page: 44
tags:
cliches
characters