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What Will Your Character Do When Disaster Strikes?

Nov 9th, 2008 | By Carolyn Kaufman | Category: Writing Techniques

Most people have seen the character worksheets that encourage writers to identify everything from shoe size and favorite food to sexual turn ons and turn offs. And while knowing your character’s most treasured possession might come in handy, it won’t tell you how your character will react when disaster strikes.
For that, you really need to [...]



Being Creative - The Right-Brain Left-Brain Myth and Flow

Sep 5th, 2008 | By Carolyn Kaufman | Category: Writing Techniques

Most of us find it hard to imagine bestselling authors struggling with their manuscripts or suffering from writers’ block.  Instead we assume they have something special we have to find or develop, and we search in vain for the magical formula.
In reality, that wonderful state in which the words just flow from our fingers is [...]