Audiences excuse much for the sake of entertainment. Good too for anyone who expects perfect reason is infuriated in life and disappointed with art. With the humility in traipsing on that line, I can’t stand a character who’s always right. Yes there must be conceits in the greatest stories, but I’ll concede where my weakness … Continue reading Always Right, Never Enjoyable
Tag: Fantasy
Motivation for Dialog
A few years ago a fellow writer told me he had difficulty writing dialog saying it was almost foreign compared to narrative prose. I gave myself as an example and advised he try writing pure dialog without any narrative prose only keeping what could be fit inside quotation marks. The suggestion came with the classic … Continue reading Motivation for Dialog
Vulnerable Characters
It’s difficult in the revelry of making a character whom you love to push them, pull them, and tear them down because we see so much of ourselves in them and a sensible person wouldn’t willingly foment such a grievous challenge to their well-being. But rarely do we examine the lives of those who sat … Continue reading Vulnerable Characters
Colin Klawans 