The one week anniversary for this blog and we have yet to mention craft. Is there anything more important for literary artists? Publishing and agents and events... all of it is talking about writing instead of writing.
Today I've been puzzling about character motivations and desires. In this most amazing book on craft (that's now my favorite book on writing next to this book), Robert Olen Butler devotes many pages to yearning as "a product of your own deepest white-hot center." Butler's approach has me wanting to drop all and head to FSU as his MFA student. (MFAs are a blog for another day.)
What does my character truly yearn for?
Writer Bums are Reader Bums. So forget the 101 lessons. Let's talk Flannery O’Connor and the most amazing short story classic Everything That Rises Must Converge. How does she do that and make it seem so effortless?
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