12th July 2016 | for Creatives | characters, writing, Jane Green, Freya North |
"Freya once said if you write your characters correctly and know them well, they will then tell their own stories. It was the best piece of writing advice I've ever received."
"Give them a character they love. You have to have a character that people empathize with. And then you have to have one of those moments of universal emotion." (on the key to great story that gets people talking)
"I write stories. I want to know what motivates people, so I create stories to venture answers. My sister is a sculptor; she uses a different medium, but she's still looking for something."
"An ending says something about the story and the characters. It also says something about you the author."
"If elements of my own life sift themselves into the plot, it's because they feel organic to the story I am telling—a story that distinctly belongs to the characters and not to me. I try to listen to the demands of the story and stay true to them."
"We get to know our characters the way we get to know the other people in our lives: by spending time with them, by seeing how they interact with others and how they function under pressure, by learning how they see themselves and how they want to be seen."
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