when a character is ready to speak
21st July 2016 | for Creatives | characters, creative process, art, artists, Robert Olen Butler, writing, Ture Ekroos |
"For me, the thing that triggers the moment in my unconscious when a character is ready to speak or be spoken of, ready to be a story, is a flash of intuition about that character's yearning. What is it at her deepest level that she yearns for?" (artist)
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