Adding to your characters appeal.
Richard North Patterson has some great writing advice. I’d like to take the high-level advice and get practical with it.
- Deepen characters — have a goal that relates to the story’s plot.
- Trim writing — cut story elements that don’t relate to the goal or the plot.
- Intensify scenes — have your character strive for a goal that is related to the overall plot.
1. Deepen Characters
Each scene has a point of view character. This character must have a goal for the scene. If there is no goal, then what is the character doing?
To add depth, give the character an internal and an external goal.
The reader is aware of the external goal.
A character’s internal goal is one you may or may not share with the reader. This is something the reader should be able to guess from…
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Thank you for sharing 🙂
Welcome Kristina