What do you do?
Posted by Keziah Hill on 14 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Chit Chat
At the Romance Writers’ of Australia annual conference, Jenny Cruise and Anne Stuart were our guest speakers. They were fantastic. I had a light bulb moment in Anne Stuart’s workshop on writing Dark Contemporary romance. If you’ve read Anne’s Ice series you know she likes a dark hero. She very successfully gets into the mind of a hero as he contemplates murdering the heroine. But she’s able to redeem him in the end.
One of the techniques she uses to deepen the characterization of her heroes is to think of five things they would never do. Then she makes them do them.
What do questions do you ask your hero or heroine to make them fuller characters?
p.s for some cute pics of our conference, check out the Argh Ink blog and Notes from a Drama Queen