Ian McEwan published his first novel in the late 1970s, but it wasn’t until the late eighties that he began to sneak into the spotlight, with his 1987 novel The Child in Time winning a Whitbread Award and his 1998 novel Amsterdam winning the Man Booker.
What can you do when your well-researched historical fact just doesn’t feel realistic? Well, you’re facing the Tiffany problem.
If your life is going well, you probably don’t have much firsthand knowledge about being arrested. That can make it difficult to write convincing crime or thriller fiction, but worry not; I’m here to help.
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.
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