Let’s borrow a concept from the world of theater – the ‘super objective’ – to see if we can dig deep and find our characters’ ultimate aims. Finding a character’s super objective adds momentum, complexity, and authenticity to the character and to the world of the story.
Fiction has always been a place to explore taboo, socially critical, transgressive ideas. That’s why transgressive fiction…
Though many know her for her dramatic suicide, Virginia Woolf was a champion of literary modernism who adapted the close psychological approach favored by Russian novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, pioneering stream-of-consciousness narration that she married with a superb sense of style, restraint, and inimitable observational chops. As you might expect,
Naming characters is a mercurial task. Sometimes, characters arrive in your mind wearing a name badge. Sometimes, their name is so hidden that you get the impression they’re only joining your story to lay low. Generally, experimentation is the answer, but I’m not here today to give you tips on where to find names. That’s
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