Gay Ingram's Blog - Posts Tagged "mark"
Find That Point of Change
In every story, there needs to be a discovery. A light-bulb moment when a life-lesson is learned. If your character remains in the same place at the end of the story as he/she was in the beginning, then you've missed the mark.
Force yourself to dig deeply into your character's personality; search for a revelation of something wrong that needs to be righted. Discovery of the meat of your piece will set your spine to tingling, your head to spin. You'll grin like someone whose been caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
Sometimes it's just a tiny incident that starts a landslide of change in your character's life. Something incidental yet it will resonate with your readers, causing them to say, "Oh yeah, that's me too."
Force yourself to dig deeply into your character's personality; search for a revelation of something wrong that needs to be righted. Discovery of the meat of your piece will set your spine to tingling, your head to spin. You'll grin like someone whose been caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
Sometimes it's just a tiny incident that starts a landslide of change in your character's life. Something incidental yet it will resonate with your readers, causing them to say, "Oh yeah, that's me too."
