writing from childhood memories
What’s Not on the Page
Some of the material in this blog appeared years ago on a blog, but I recently was thinking about how much of what the writer knows about a character never finds its way onto the page, but is important in developing both character and plot. Particularly important in my writing is my life as a…
Read MoreSnippets from Childhood Revisited
Sometimes memories from my childhood come back not as whole stories, but as single events, scenes or lines of dialogue. These snippets are important because I find I can use them in my writing to create aspects of my characters, places for events in the story to unfold or happy and sad feelings for character…
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