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Letting Characters Emerge Hurrah! My potential character took the bait! He is revealing himself slowly. As I was thinking of ideas for picture books, an idea came up: what if the family was structured in a distinctive way? At 2 a.m. this morning, the character woke me up and started dictating a scene about dealing [...]
Before December 11, 2006, I wouldn’t have thought to describe a character’s voice. Then along came Vocal Impressions on National Public Radio. Wow! It’s evocative to describe a character’s voice, and if you use a metaphor that also evokes a character quality, you’re even farther along! Raw Voice + Apt Metaphor = Characterization From the [...]
Characters Who Move According to Mehrabian, 55% of communication depends on body language, 38% on tone-of-voice, and 7% on the words used. That’s bad news for novelists because we don’t have direct access to the body language as we work with our fictional characters – they are just words on a page. Adding body language [...]
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