Comments on: Emotional Wound Entry: Being Unfairly Blamed For the Death of Another

By: ANGELA ACKERMAN

ANGELA ACKERMAN — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 18:02:38 +0000

In reply to Mike Lucas. Thanks so much Mike!

By: Mike Lucas

Mike Lucas — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 21:19:27 +0000

Thanks so much for the quick response and fix.

I forgot to mention how awesome this resource is! It’s really helping me because I find character questionnaires to shut off my creativity, even the interesting ones like KM Weiland’s “questions to ask about the Lie”. But these examples are really helping me address those things. They help validate my ideas and inspire me with new ones. Kudos to you and Becca!

By: ANGELA ACKERMAN

ANGELA ACKERMAN — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 03:26:54 +0000

In reply to Mike Lucas. Ah! Thanks for the heads up. And in this situation, the source would be those who are doing the blaming, not the victim of the ire, so yes, the people who blame the character. :)

By: Mike Lucas

Mike Lucas — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 03:10:18 +0000

One potential correction, I think you meant “fear of relationships and being *responsible* for others” (not responsive).

Also a question, when you say “walking on eggshells around those who are the source of blame”, by “source of blame” do you mean the people who blame the character?

By: Carol Baldwin

Carol Baldwin — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 19:13:40 +0000

This was very helpful and made me think more deeply about how my characters grandmothers would have reacted to the death of someone who was important to both of them–thus impacting the present. You know, that backstory stuff. Thanks!

By: Robyn Campbell

Robyn Campbell — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 14:23:12 +0000

Congrats to the winners. Woohoo, Natalie. YEAH!

Building a character is hard. But once we have that whole person the story is just so much better. The thing that gets me is when I buy a book, and the characters are stale and cardboard. And here I am trying to make my characters into REAL human beings. How do these books get published?

Thanks for all you do. xoxo