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Q: SD, Is there a
way to get over the fear of letting people read your manuscripts?
A: Of course there is, let people read your manuscripts.
Everyone has fears of not being accepted and there is no true way of getting
past that particular anxiety. There are ways of minimizing your fears. However,
be forward that family member and close friends are more supportive than
critical. But, there is hope. Request for readers through the social media of
your choice, start a blog, join clubs with other writers, and you might also
seriously consider beginning publicizing yourself as a new author and what
genres you write in, speak more about the books and authors you like. Once you
are around like minded people in the world you’ve created and those you’ve
joined, you will feel less fearful of people reading your manuscripts. This
will not completely remove all of your fears, but you will have less of them. I
hope this helps. SD
Q: SD, Is it
possible to be too descriptive?
A: That is a good
question. The level of imagination is a subject that is debated on all fronts.
Some may say that the world you build should be more descriptive than your
characters. Others may say that your characters need to be fully formed for the
reader to have enough information about them to separate each from the other
more so than their name. Lastly there are those who insist that the motivation
of the story itself, she takes the stage front and center. All of these are
correct and yet none of them are. I’m saying this is because if all areas of a
story is more important than none is most important. There can only be one lead
dog pulling any sled and the choice of which will be most important is made by
you. Every author has a style of their own and that singular distention is what
makes each of us (you included) special in our own way. Work on your craft and
find your own voice is most important. Where this comment came from is
important, but it is only one and not one of many. Learn from it, grow from it,
and pursue others to gather more of it. Nevertheless, no matter what is said,
the final choice is up to you. I hope this helps. SD
Q: SD, Is there a
way to make a good character bad, but not too bad?
A: You can make a good person bad, just as easy as your
imagination is willing to go down that rabbit hole. Now the question is how bad
and for what reason. Your question leads to more questions and yet they all
leads back to you. A character can be misinformed, confused, believing they are
doing the right thing for the wrong reason or the wrong thing for the right
reasons. Jim helps his friends rob a bank because they had kidnaped his family
and promised they would let them go. Once the job is over they change their
mind and want to do another job. Jim sees this as a never ending cycle and his
friends won’t let him know that his family is alright. Jim now sets out to get
his family back. He knows he can’t go to the police (story wise) and starts
treating each of his friends just as they had done to him. In the end, Jim
finds out that his family had left to take care of their parents for a week or
two because they were in a car accident. Jim friends now know they are no
longer friends and the line they should have never crossed. A good character
can do some bad things, but the level of bad is up to you. I hope this helps.
SD
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