Thursday, March 15, 2012

A quote by Alex Flinn


                A memory came to me. One time, in middle school, a famous author came to talk to our class and give a writing workshop. One of the things she told us about writing a novel was that the story should be about what the main character wants. Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas. George Milton wants a farm of his own. Amelia Sedley wants to marry her darling George and live happily ever after. The end of the story, according to the famous author, is when the character either gests what he wants or realizes he’s never going to get it. Or sometimes, she said, like Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind, realizes she doesn’t actually want what she thought she wanted all along.
- Alex Flinn, pg. 324 of Bewitching

                Think about what your character wants and try to have the plot around that. Also, think about does your character gets it in the end, doesn’t get it, or actually wanted something else all along.








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