Thursday, October 21, 2010

Give me Character!

It starts with one spark and then another. Sooner or later you've got an idea for a story or a character. Now what? Start writing about them. But you say I don't know what to write?

That's just what the answer is. I'll repeat my earlier answer, you start writing. Some of it is going to suck big time, but some of it won't and that's the writing you keep.
 
If you wanted to run a marathon you wouldn't just sign up and start running. Even athletes train for an upcoming race. You work up to it. Every dreary day, good or bad you get up and run. Maybe a mile at first then two and so forth, eventually you get there.  Just do it, like the Nike ad says.

Really it's that easy or in some cases that hard, but you work at it hoping for the end result. A good solid story, with great characters you know inside and out.


There are so many resources to help writers- write. One I like using is called; One Page Per Day. http://www.onepageperday.com
It's a great way to keep doing what you love and stay anonymous, cause sometimes it's hard to get pass the obstacle of sharing your writing. The best part is people can request more of your stories. (Positive feedback is always a plus.)

So if it starts with an idea,  what's you're idea? Tell me about it.

4 comments:

  1. Which one to pick? How about the little boy that lives in a home without Christmas. His intellectual parents don't want to fill his head with foolish ideas. They're going to bring him up with the truth -- there is no Santa. All this Christmas stuff is just needless spending and a commercial rip off. They go out for nice Thai food on Christmas eve and on Christmas enjoy a traditional game of Scrabble.

    This little boy, Tim, is pretty smart himself. He misses Christmas. He wants what all his friends have — the tree, the presents, the decorations, the cookies. So he builds himself a Christmas robot. (And the story continues on . . .)

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  2. He built the robot out of tinfoil and paper bags, so of course, it did nothing to bring about Christmas and just brought ridicule from the other children.

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  3. One of the children knocked him down, picked him back up by the shirt and shook him violently. The little boy was scarred for life and would become the Christmas murderer.

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  4. He also had a side-hobby of running around in a tinted hamster ball.

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