Once your character has a goal? To be in a story, they need things that stop them achieving it! I talk about Obstacles in today's #Starronstory ... I also talk a lot about #Cinderella #fictionwriting #learntowrite youtu.be/7uhuCs0xgGc?...
Ready for horrorified reactions, but can I just say I always found the second generation of Wuthering Heights characters a bit... boring, anyway?
Jane Harper's THE DRY is phenomenally successful, and I discuss a few things writers can learn from it in a new episode of Starr on Story here:
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I need a word for that feeling I get realising how much younger than me some very influential writers were… when they died. Jane Austen was only 41.