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Adventure Time
It's the holiday season, and you know what that means, holiday travel! This is the perfect time of the year to spend time people watching and writing down a few quick character sketches. And please, don't be the dope at the stoplight texting notes in your car when it turns green... When travelling, it's interesting to see people in action in a unfamiliar environment. At rest stops and restaurants, watch people who are tired, perhaps lost or hungry, or dealing with children who are cranky and want to run around. Memorize the expressions on their faces, the tone of voice they use when speaking to others. And what better time to think up some story ideas when spending a few hours on the turnpike?
Even when out shopping, the opportunities are endless, like watching the clerk deal with the angry customer, watch their faces and body language. Does the angry one lean in and use aggressive body language? Does the clerk cross his arms, subliminally making a wall between them? At what point do they calm down? Or does someone blow their top? If you're stuck in line, make the most of it and mentally note what is going on. You can always note it later, or jot something on the back of your receipt. Body language can be a useful tool to show your readers your character's emotion without having to tell them.
Best of all, watch the happy faces of children spending time with family and friends, see how a smile can start as a twitch on the lips and turn into a huge grin. The doting smile of a grandparent, the exhausted embrace of a parent, and the coo of a baby can all be saved and savored, and used in your stories. Enjoy these little moments and then....Write on!
This month's question: Do you write and save character notes and emotion studies?
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Excerpt: There was not a single window to be found anywhere in the room. Instead, there was a large rectangular mirror fixed to the floor in front of me as I sat in an office chair. I had in the past, tried many times to move the mirror to the wall but it resisted all my attempts.
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Excerpt: This is it. At last. The first rite of passage to manhood. All the stuff the kids in junior high had been talking about incessantly.
Excerpt: The fiery sun beat down on princess Moswen, while she rode on her skittish elephant across the devastating deserts of Egypt. She was travelling to King Atum's estate to be wed to him.
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Excerpt: When I stole away Mademoiselle Eléonore's head just after the blade fell, no one seemed to care. Eléonore certainly didn't, but I wasn't sure. I hadn't had a chance to ask her yet.
Excerpt: Heat was usually not a problem for the scarecrow. Its face was made of hay, held together by a huge straw hat as was its feet and body, tucked in old grey buttoned shirt and pants, torn and tattered with strips of hay sticking out from small tears and openings.
Excerpt: It was Halloween in Seattle, just another rainy day with the low hanging clouds looking black and blue as if bruised and swollen. The heavens seemed to weep from the pain, and the rain flowed heavily off the roof and into the gutters, flooding the yard with small puddles that the soaked ground was unable to absorb.
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This month's question: Do you write and save character notes and emotion studies?
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Last month's question: What steps do you take to create your story?
pnut67 replied: I will do a family tree for my main hero/heroine, and maybe some backstory on their hometown, but for "Death For Sale", my short story that I am doing on here as a first time writer, I didn't do anything, because I am kind of doing the family/hometown backstory in the main story, in the form of flashbacks
Quick-Quill  answered: I start with my What if, or why did that happen? From there I figure the part of the story I know for sure then, I guess like a snowflake I branch out filling in characters and plot line.I like when at the end of a story the reader says "A-HA!thats how they are all connected"
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