Perspective / Basic Terms pt 1 / Discovering Characters

How do we present the story to our readers? This question is often asked on social media.

Should I write in first person? Deep Voice? Limited?

All of these are the narration of the story through a character’s eyes and opinions—or more than one characters’ eyes and opinions. This is Perspective, viewpoint, point of view. Our choice of viewpoint matters. How do we make that choice? This episode will help you with that basic decision.

Contents

• 0:39 Introduction
• 1:15 Start
• 3:52 Perspective
• 7:30 Story-Telling Pronouns
• 9:40 4 Successful Points of View
• 13:12 Worrisome Points of View
• 18:18 Decisions about Points of View
• 18:56 Closing

 Direct Link to the Audio https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/405-perspective-basic-terms-pt-1-discovering-characters/?token=0563e6e2ea539b214df1c78863005cc0

Direct Link to the Video https://youtu.be/cea8AcSMhqg

Discovering Characters  can be purchased at these links:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y7LYK19

https://books2read.com/u/3RJrZB

Discovering Your Writing, a bundle of four writing craft books, is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08691892S

View the Trailer: https://youtu.be/hTVQn92kNBk

Interviews / Discovering Characters

 The character interview is a vital method to reach into your characters’ voices.

Before launching into a major storyline, writers should interview their primaries: protagonists & antagonists as well as the important secondaries whose decisions will affect the primary characters.

Yet what questions do we ask? We’ve an excellent interview adapted from several sources, starting with M.A. Lee’s years in journalism (before she escaped the real Nosy Parker business and entered the fictional NP one).

We’re Discovering Characters.

Contents

• 0:39 Intro
• 1:20 Start
• 4:58 Questions on Goals (5)
• 6:14 ~ on Secrets and Loss
• 6:44 ~ on Fears and Sacrifice
• 7:15 ~ Last Question
• 7:36 Example
• 11:40 Closing

Discovering Characters can be purchased at these links:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y7LYK19

https://books2read.com/u/3RJrZB

Discovering Your Writing, a bundle of four writing craft books, is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08691892S

View the Trailer: https://youtu.be/hTVQn92kNBk

Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.

Our current focus is Discovering Characters. We’re bookcasting!

Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr

• You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Just up is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook.
• Templates from the Discovering Characters series are also there.

For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com  .

Write to us at winkbooks@aol.com.

If you find value in this podcast, please share with your writing friends or write a review. (We’re small beans. We don’t have the advertising budget of the big peeps. You can make a difference.)

Templates / Discovering Characters

 Templates are the easiest way to build a character from ground up.

The only problem is that most templates barely cover more than appearance and bits & pieces of relationships and angst and secrets.

Don’t fret. We have 10 templates that delve deeper than the surface façade, into the interior spaces where characters live.

We’re Discovering Characters.

Contents

• 0:39 Intro
• 1:20 Start
• 6:52 Templates ~ Basic (3)
• 10:40 ~ Character in Society (3)
• 14:26 ~ Secrets plus (4)
• 16:50 Example
• 21:20 Closing

Discovering Characters can be purchased at these links: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y7LYK19 https://books2read.com/u/3RJrZB

Discovering Your Writing, a bundle of four writing craft books, is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08691892S

View the Trailer: https://youtu.be/hTVQn92kNBk

Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.

Our current focus is Discovering Characters. We’re bookcasting!

Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr

• You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Just up is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook.

• Templates from the Discovering Characters series are also there.

For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com .

Write to us at winkbooks@aol.com.

If you find value in this podcast, please share with your writing friends or write a review. (We’re small beans. We don’t have the advertising budget of the big peeps. You can make a difference.)

Getting Started with Characters / Discovering Characters

Where do writers get their ideas? How do we build characters?

Those 2 essential questions start every bit of writing. All else (situation, plot, genre, tropes, length) comes from those questions. Our work as writers is to make the answers that we discover hide on the page, so that readers have only the enjoyment of the story.

Contents

• 0:39 Opening
• 1:21 Introduction to Discovering Characters
• 6:47 Getting Ideas
• 15:27 Closing

Special Links

“How 50 Famous Authors Find Writing Inspiration” / thejohnfox.com

“Where Do You Get Your Ideas” / neilgaiman.com

17 Sept. 2017 / Robin Storey / storey-lines.com

 

Discovering Characters  can be purchased at these links:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y7LYK19

https://books2read.com/u/3RJrZB

Discovering Your Writing, a bundle of four writing craft books, is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08691892S

View the Trailer: https://youtu.be/hTVQn92kNBk

 

Direct Link to the Audio https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/402-introduction-getting-ideas-discovering-characters/?token=b88509b4aa035854cfd55af401f06383

Direct Link to the Video https://youtu.be/AnhO-G6CWZ8

Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.

Our current focus is Discovering Characters. We’re bookcasting!

Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr

·       You can find workbooks and templates at Buy Me a Coffee. Just up is the Enter the Writing Business Workbook.

·       Templates from the Discovering Characters series are also there.

For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com  .

Write to us at winkbooks@aol.com.

If you find value in this podcast, please share with your writing friends or write a review. (We’re small beans. We don’t have the advertising budget of the big peeps. You can make a difference.)

FreebieFantasy Story Start ~ Annual Giveaway

 January 1 falls outside the parameters by offering a freebie. 

This year Edie Roones and M.A. Lee give us “The Poisoner and the Faerie Huntsman”, from the Wild Sherwood series, collected into the anthology Into Wild Sherwood.

Melly and her hound encounter strange black hounds. Then the Huntsman of the Wild Hunt arrives. Has the fallen into greater trouble?

The entire story is available free on Book Funnel: 

https://dl.bookfunnel.com/c639tkoihp

Also available free is last year’s New Year’s story 

from Remi Black: “Godriana’s Font” : 

https://dl.bookfunnel.com/miehw4vs4q

AND the New Year’s story “The Lion’s Den” from 

M.A. Lee : https://dl.bookfunnel.com/wc84divkre

Enjoy the freebies!

Contents

• ·       0:40 Intro
• ·       2:55 Story Start
• ·       24:47 Out-go
• ·       25:15 Exit

Thanks for listening to The Write Focus. We focus on productivity, process, craft, and tools. Our podcast is for newbies who want to become writing pros and veterans who are returning to writing after years away.

Our starting focus for this year is Discovering Characters. We’re bookcasting!

For more links and resources, visit www.thewritefocus.blogspot.com  .

Write to us at winkbooks@aol.com.

Support the podcast with a cup of coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winkbooksr

If you find value in this podcast, please share with your writing friends or write a review. (We’re small beans. We don’t have the advertising budget of the big peeps. You can make a difference.)

Direct Link to the audio https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/401-freebie-story-start-fantasy/?token=473fbd632788365672df28529956db4c

Direct Link to the video https://youtu.be/pmJeT5QXJTM