Morning all we are back for another day of our novel writing challenge. It is another writing day scheduled for me )and will be until the end of May when I hope to have my first rough draft ready) I hope you are doing well with whatever schedule you have set up. And don’t feel that you have to match my schedule exactly. For March I set a one hour per week day schedule (with a few exceptions), but this weekend I looked at April and I may be switching times for writing and adjusting them for days I will not be able to write. I’m making my final decisions on that tonight so I will know what April holds before April actually gets here. Which is a long way to go to say that you should write at your own pace and in your own schedule.
But wait, there’s more.
We also have our daily writing exercise. Today and tomorrow we have character building exercises and then we swithch to something else.
Task 61 – writing exercise – Choose a character and visualize them in your head. Who are they what do they do in the story you are creating. Got them? Good. Now write about a person they disliked as a child. Someone they disposed or that gave them the creeps. Explain why they didn’t like this person, even if they didn’t realize it at the time. Then, have your character look back.
Does their opinion change about this person or do they have a sudden realization from the perspective of an adult as to why they didn’t like them? Did something happen that solidified a general feeling they had? As an adult do they have a better perspective on the situation? Do they use any of this in their life in an ‘I will be a better person than…sort of way? Or do thoughts of them spark new thoughts or understandings of a situation they are facing now? Or is it just an old memory?
As always Happy writing.
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