Opinions are the lifeblood of literature. To perceive the world in an individual way, and to share that perception with the world, is where all art starts. One of the great qualities of a story is that it allows you to experience someone else’s life, world and opinions, and come away a different person for
Sometimes, to be really great at something, you have to understand its limits. How far can it be pushed before it breaks? How much can it transform before it becomes something else? Nowhere is this truer than in literature, a discipline where there is still no unanimous decision on even the most basic of questions.
Mental illness is an area frequently misunderstood by authors and readers alike. The temptation to examine the human condition through characters who think or behave in ways we find strange is a common theme in literature, and yet more and more of society is waking up to the fact that frivolous depictions of mental illness
Getting characters to live and breathe on the page can be tough, can’t it? Sometimes we think we’ve achieved complexity and then we’ll read a line or a page and realize that what we really have is just a cardboard cutout going through the motions. If you’re struggling with character work, one technique to try
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