Greetings and salutations on this lovely (HA!) Monday morning. Today I’m bringing you the first of a two-part guest post by author Davis Aujourd’hui about character writing. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately, so this is a very timely post for me. I’ve been working pretty obsessively on one main Work in Progress for a while now (click here if you want any info), which has been wonderful - but for the fact that the character I’ve been writing (Charlie) won’t do what I want him to do and wrap his part of the story up. So I’ve been shifting around in that piece, trying different characters on for size, to see if changing voices will help Charlie decide to get with the program. It has not been working. So this past weekend I tried something altogether different - shifting Works in Progress.
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