When it comes to writing and reading, I love beautiful sentences, complex conflicts, unlikely metaphors. Stories driven by characters, where the focus is less on what happens, and more on how a person reacts to what happens. So it should come as no surprise that in my own work, plot is my biggest challenge. After all, you can only spend so many pages describing someone's complicated feelings about their hometown. At some point, something must happen in that hometown - a murder, an explosion, a betrayal. This gives your character, who so far has been looking at birds and thinking about her mother and regretting the way she broke up with her high school girlfriend, something in the present moment to look at, think about, focus on.
Grabbing the thread before it unravels. 💫
Grabbing the thread before it unravels. 💫
Grabbing the thread before it unravels. 💫
When it comes to writing and reading, I love beautiful sentences, complex conflicts, unlikely metaphors. Stories driven by characters, where the focus is less on what happens, and more on how a person reacts to what happens. So it should come as no surprise that in my own work, plot is my biggest challenge. After all, you can only spend so many pages describing someone's complicated feelings about their hometown. At some point, something must happen in that hometown - a murder, an explosion, a betrayal. This gives your character, who so far has been looking at birds and thinking about her mother and regretting the way she broke up with her high school girlfriend, something in the present moment to look at, think about, focus on.