For the seventh day of the first Writer’s Digest Character-Building Challenge the prompt is “pick a place and have two or more of your characters meet and interact with each other.” Merle smelled spiced wild flowers and felt a vibration on the make-shift bar. He smiled then looked up at her wondering if she wouldContinue reading “Character-Building Challenge Day 7: Meeting Place”
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Character-Building Challenge Day 6: Love or Hate
For the sixth day of the first Writer’s Digest Character-Building Challenge the prompt is to create someone who loves or despises one of your characters. Roger Byron knew that Davenna was a romantic. At first he liked it, how she made everything about love and sex and fantasy. It was hot when they were young,Continue reading “Character-Building Challenge Day 6: Love or Hate”
Character-Building Challenge Day 5: Making Friends
For the fifth day of the first Writer’s Digest Character-Building Challenge the prompt is to create a friend, ally, or sidekick for one of the characters. Sonia Havana Cashion is Davenna Dale Byron’s best friend, or at least Davenna likes to think so. Sonia lives in the big house at the top of the hill.Continue reading “Character-Building Challenge Day 5: Making Friends”
Character-Building Challenge Day 4: What do they think of each other?
For the fourth day of the first Writer’s Digest Character-Building Challenge the prompt is “sit both the characters you interrogated down and have them share what and how they think about each other.” What Davenna thinks of Merle: He is intriguing. I see him at the cafe in the bookstore. I like to sit andContinue reading “Character-Building Challenge Day 4: What do they think of each other?”
Character-Building Challenge Day 3: Second Character Interview
For the third day of the first Writer’s Digest Character-Building Challenge the prompt is to choose another of the character names from Day One and interview that character. Today I’ll interview Davenna Dale Byron. The Questions I’m using the same questions from Day 2 that I adapted from Novel Writing: 10 Questions You Need toContinue reading “Character-Building Challenge Day 3: Second Character Interview”
RNLN Attempt 8: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Overview: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is an intimate look at a philosopher’s wife, her husband, and eight children and their guests at a summer house. The young son wants to take the boat trip to the Lighthouse but the weather is not cooperating and he is very disappointed. The novel is told inContinue reading “RNLN Attempt 8: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf”
Character-Building Challenge Day 2: Ten Question Interview
For the second day of the first Writer’s Digest Character-Building Challenge the prompt is to choose one of the character names from yesterday and ask that character ten questions. It’s going to be hard to choose just one. I liked a lot of the names I came up with yesterday, and they are all somehowContinue reading “Character-Building Challenge Day 2: Ten Question Interview”
Character-Building Challenge Day 1: Names
Happy first of March. Today is the first day of the first Writer’s Digest Character-Building Challenge. The first prompt is to create ten character names. New Character Names For today’s names I used my Character Creation Spreadsheet and a random number generator. Middle names made a big difference to me this morning, and when aContinue reading “Character-Building Challenge Day 1: Names”
Abstraction, Expression, and Sonification
I looked at expression as an abstract noun back at the beginning of my study in April of 2022, and created a facial expression out of wire for my images. But today, I’m exploring “a manifestation of an emotion, feeling, etc., without words” and communication of emotion through art. In Photography and the Art ofContinue reading “Abstraction, Expression, and Sonification”
Reading Novels Like a Novelist Attempt 7: A Widow For One Year by John Irving
Procedural Tips I did it! I finally read A Widow for One Year by John Irving. I finally understand the title that’s been sitting on my shelf for what seems like forever. It took a half a day longer than I thought it would, and it felt like I had run a 10K when IContinue reading “Reading Novels Like a Novelist Attempt 7: A Widow For One Year by John Irving”
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