Let Steph Penney tell you her story…or her books stories
Look where others pass by, and riches will be yours
This fine video can provide much insight for you as a writer. Actually as I love Canada, someday I may even read this mystery. Writing always challenges the writer. Penney mentions that sometimes imagination provides greater results than the research. I prefer knowing the landscape, cultures, so that I might visualize the richness of place as a landscape painter might. At that point my questions gallop forth to the adventture that emerges from place and feeling.
Everyone has their own method to get the work started. Once begun the process unfolds as mystically as the historical elements you seek to capture. Perhaps writing also creates a game of hide and seek. The characters give you glimpses of who they are and what will unravel as you move into their territory and mindset.
Characters too can take on a life of their own helping you can experience about their relationships to nature, otehr people, and even props. Your success rests on their development and believeability. Unfortunately the writer has greater competition than ever with all the elctronic media that makes a story easy to consume.
Alas sculpting with words provides better for exercise for each brain willing to engage in the adventure. May your words compel the reader to walk alongside you and drink of the magical word…
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