Follow up
Last time I wrote that it’s a writer’s job to attempt to destroy their characters’ lives. I want to follow up on that this time. Like I said stories happen when conflicts arise. Nobody likes to hear someone tell them about a normal, average, boring day at work. No. We want the funny story, the touching story, the rage inducing story. Those are what get us off our feet, so to speak. As a writer I have to figure these kind of things out. It isn’t always easy because most of the time I actually like my characters. I don’t want them to have a bad day. That was a problem I had when I first started to write when I was quite a bit younger. My heroes were just too good at what they did. There was very little in the way of real conflict for them. I usually had an overarching villain that they never really had contact with. I cry a little to myself when I read my oldest works… Anyway back to...