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During her House days, Morrison was a brunette. "Blonde is my natural color. What you see now is my real hair, I just have highlights,' she says. "Brown was a pain for me. My roots were light enough that they would grow in quickly, so every three weeks, it looked like my hair was floating. Once House was a hit, I had to keep the brown hair, but it was a major process to keep it up."
"I always wear J Brand jeans," says Morrison. "I haven't found another pair of jeans that beats those for me." We like the waxy coating on these, which lends the pair a tough leather look that we think Emma Swan (and Jennifer) would appreciate.
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"Brian Atwood's shoes are worth the pain, because they're so gorgeous," says Morrison, who braved the New York sidewalks in a pair very similar to these.
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Glasgow City Council have hit back at the Sunday Times, a national British newspaper who yesterday accused them of cutting back expense at the cost of design at the Riverside Museum Project. The article referred to "Documents obtained by the Sunday Times (that) reveal the original plan — designed by Zaha Hadid, one of the world's top architects — is being altered to save millions of pounds on the construction costs." However this information has been available in the project's financial reports since June 2007, says Lawrence Fitzgerald, Project Director for the Riverside Museum Project: "The Times article is so out of date," he said, "In developing any project you go through specific reviews. Some are cost neutral and some work out as cost efficient."
Responding to the accusations that the changes are a money-saving initiative, he added: "I think in the context of a council and the Heritage Lottery fund spending £74 million on a regional museum it can't be considered penny-pinching. It's 10,000 sq m, that's £7400 per square metre – that's not penny pinching by any stretch of the imagination."
Zaha Hadid Architects design for Glasgow's Riverside Museum is set to be a landmark building for the city. Situated on the Riverside at the junction where the rivers Kelvin and Clyde meet, it will be an iconic modernist structure for the post-industrial city. Fitzgerald advised that the changes were part of the normal design process and would reflect positively on the building: "With regards to the lobby redesign, in both instances the changes came from them (Zaha Hadid's office). There's a lot of thinking in the design and they think about things further particularly when contractors are about to come in.
"Changes in the ceiling are just to the secondary steel work. There would be no difference in what visitors would see or understand."
He advised that Buro Happold, the engineers for the project, were originally unsure that the lighter materials which have been included in the re-work of the designs could be used, but that their inclusion was not only cost effective but positive for the design.
Fitzgerald also divulged his frustrated with the Sunday Times negative references to 'starchitects' including Zaha Hadid in quoting Gavin Stamp, an architect-ural historian and writer as saying: "If you're going to commission someone like (Zaha Hadid) you should expect to go way over budget. It's all about going for superstar, iconic architects." Fitzgerald advised that his experience with Hadid's office has been nothing like the diva experience inferred in the article. "Certainly my only experience of working with a star architect has been a very positive one. They have been practical, pragmatic, engineering-conscious, imaginative. They are aware of the constraints and they understand budgets and respond very imaginatively."
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"When an individual questions his foundation in life—" Most of us just call them WTF moments. Shallow thinkers know better than to play in the water of life that's over their heads. Just believing in God pushes their imagination. Sheeple find ignorance blissful indeed. Intellectual evolution roadblocked by the NFL and light beer, who would [...]
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Cool, been praying that this would happen sooner than later. I trust that you know that you're building the new world order that Christians have been predisposed to believe is the work of the devil. Going to be a bit of a hurdle to clear but worth the effort nontheless. With luck and love, just [...]
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Wendy, lovya, I haven't even read this yet, but apparently you've gone to deep for even the FDL crowd! Which is pretty damned deep for the standard deviation deviants of God lovin' (but constipated with the fear mongered portion of our collective psyche) Amerika as your so wont to suggest in your subliminal attempts to [...]
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I nominate you for the MY FDL representative to this internet revolution. Occupy going digital, its about time. The site needs a better mission statement, a direct declaration of its intent to retrain the minds of the world, other than to make money, screw that Arianna, make History. (and to be candid and up front [...]
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Gotta love anyone that feels the ancestral wonderment of the heavens. Even the cave men knew something important was happening up there. Yeah, Heavens out there! Gotta pray toward Sagittarius for best reception though. Mecca will do as a general directional target in a pinch I suppose, since your spirit gets amped by the pyramid [...]
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That's it, just had a 70′s backflash time warped wanna do that somemore psychic episode. There is something green glowing in the sunset this evening, it might be an organic reflection ofa something might be a smoke signal from long ago. I'm gonna hafta consider retiring from my Thoreau retirement in Freaking Florida, and move [...]
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Stellar stuff. Kinda makes that History of Art class, of so many moons ago, superfluous. Thanks Prof WD! As time flows on, gravity affects the body not the soul. Spiritual synaptic interface is elevated. Luvya; gone.
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I'm with you TD, but you know the Tea Party is saying the same thing. So I'm having difficulty resolving the definitions of capitulation with that of compromise; and suppose its a question of degree and how far the center flag moves in the political tug-of-war. The next six weeks should have plenty of discussion [...]
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Hellofa post Dave. If we could get your essay inscribed in titanium and placed on, say the Washington Monument; maybe in 10K years, if there are any left to read, someone in an insulated space suit might therefore find evidence that some of the planet's population had broken free of this higher form of addiction. [...]
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Every new version of Exchange brings changes, and Exchange 2013 is no exception. This event will help equip you to upgrade to Exchange 2013 by examining the most critical changes Microsoft has made in the new version, including the new division of labor between the mailbox and CAS roles, the introduction of PowerShell 3.0, and a rethinking of how Microsoft believes customers should provide perimeter security and message hygiene for Exchange.
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The client access server (CAS) role was arguably the most complicated piece of Exchange 2010. In Exchange 2013, Microsoft has dramatically streamlined the CAS role—but that doesn't mean you can forget everything you know about certificates, namespaces, and load balancing! In this session we'll see what's changed about the CAS 2013 role and learn how to apply what you know about designing and operating Exchange 2010 CAS services to the new version.
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LSCU & Affiliates win CUNA, Hermes awards
The LSCU & Affiliates has been awarded a CUNA Blockbuster Award and five Hermes Creative Awards. CUNA hands out 16 Blockbuster awards every year. This year only eight leagues won those 16. The LSCU & Affiliates were awarded the "Blow Your Own Horn" award for the
"LSCU at the GAC" videos that are produced every year from Washington, D.C. This is the fifth straight year that the League has won at least one Blockbuster award. Not many leagues can say that.
The LSCU & Affiliates won two Gold awards from Hermes and three Honorable Mention. Hermes sounds like a strange name, but many national companies from around the world put in for these awards. They have 5,500 entries from 15 countries with 15 percent winning Platinum, highest award, 21 percent winning Gold and 11 percent named Honorable Mention. So, Honorable Mention is actually an award and not given to everyone who enters.
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As you scout, keep in mind that there are good guy and bad guy insects and those that fall somewhere in between. Identifying insects is foremost to determining if they are actually harming a plant. The use of chemicals should be your last resort.
Consider the tiny, soft bodied, pear-shaped aphids for a discussion of chemical versus nonchemical treatment. They are on every list as a bad guy insect. Host plants for aphids include a variety of perennials, annuals, vegetables, trees even houseplants, and the insect comes in a multitude of colors.
These amazingly complex insects have a straw-like mouth part that allows them to pierce the succulent new growth at the tip of plants and suck out some of the juices. When the number of aphids is high, damage can cause a distortion of the plant tip or leaves and even stunted growth. Trees typically sustain cosmetic damage.
Honeydew is the clear, shiny and sticky waste product of aphids that is found where they are feeding. It can be seen on plant leaves, lawn furniture, pavement and even cars parked under infested trees. Ants are attracted to honeydew's sweetness and their presence can be a sign that aphids are near. A fungus, black, sooty mold, can grow on honeydew wherever it is found. On plants, this can cause further disfigurement and restrict photosynthesis.
Regular scouting of the garden for insects or changes in plants should reveal an aphid population before it gets large.
When found, the first line of defense is your garden hose and a strong spray of water to dislodge as many aphids as possible. If this doesn't yield the desired result, insecticidal soap may be applied directly onto the aphids. This leaves no lasting residue and is virtually nontoxic to animals, birds and beneficial insects — the good guys. Vegetables can be sprayed up to harvest — always follow label directions.
Encourage natural aphid predator good guys to your garden. This requires a balancing act of sorts, because to come and stay in your garden, they will require food, such as aphids. Visit our website and search "attracting beneficial insects" to learn more.
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Thursday, 01 November 2012
PhD Candidate in the School of Communications and Arts, Andy Simionato invites you to the first edition of Swap, Drop and Roll, where the public is invited to participate by bringing a book they wish to swap or abandon. Any books removed may remain with the participant indefinitely. The event will unfold from November 2 through December 30, 2012.
Swap, Drop and Roll is a social experiment on the communities that form where the complex pathways of the book intersect. Swapping a book requires a point of contact, a common space through which there may be an exchange of energies, along with the exchange of the material object itself, each time adding to the Situational Library which is an attempt to make visible, if only for an instant, those communities that form at each passing of the book. Within this Situational Library there is the potential for the divergence and reconfiguration of the book, not through some alteration of its medium or mode of inscription, but through those who hold the idea of the book in common.
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Found out a shop down the road sells it and I am curious. Anyone had it before? This place also sells alligator, muskox and ostrich. I gotta try them all
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Never had the others but gator soup is delicious
I had a kangaroo steak once as a kid at a roadside place in South Dakota. I remember being quite tasty.
this sounds weird but it has an almost fruity taste, like plummy sort of. yep that sounded stupid. but you'll see what i mean, it's good stuff! i treat it like a steak, pan fry or bbq medium rare.
ostrich, you wouldn't know it's bird, it's more like red meat. i love it, but be careful not to let it get dry or it's like chewing chalk
I've had kangaroo (at the Half Moon in Kennett Square, PA) and it was OUTSTANDING! I would say as good or better than any beef I've ever eaten.
gator tastes a bit like fishy chicken to me. Ostrich is pretty damn yummy. Never had roo.
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Haven't gotten around to Kangaroo yet. But it's on the list.
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Donald Maass on Jul 02 2014 | Filed under: CRAFT
Imagine you're having a holiday dinner at home. A tablecloth is spread. Silverware is laid. All is perfect until you knock over a glass of red wine. What happens? Quickly you spread open a white table napkin and drop it over the spill. The puddle of wine seeps through.
The tablecloth is now, in a way, a memory. The napkin is a map of the little lake of wine. The wine is infused in both. Even after you throw them in the wash the stains remain, faintly, as a reminder of a meal that started long ago and, in a way, is never finished.
Perhaps you have some laundry tricks that I don't have? Or you use paper tablecloths and napkins? Never mind. You get my point. When you infuse something as strong as red wine into an absorbent piece of cloth, a faint awareness of that wine lingers. Future meals are infused with and informed by the memory of that small holiday disaster.
Your novel is like that. It's the dining room, a place where many meals are eaten and finally add up to a life. Every one of those meals, though, involves that tablecloth and napkin which are imprinted with something which I would call your protagonist's greatest need. That need is always present even if you cover up that stain with a table runner and cleverly fold the napkin. You know it's there. You are always aware of it.
Have you come across scenes in excellent novels which seem to have no plot purpose but which work anyway? Have you ever felt the undertow of a character's yearning in commonplace action, tugging your awareness down below the surface of an everyday situation? Such scenes are infused with the point of view character's fundamental, underlying and (as yet) unmet need.
How do we achieve that effect in every scene? How do we infuse every moment with unspoken awareness of the need that is pulling a character inexorably through the length of the story? Naturally, I have a suggestion. Try this…
- Identify your protagonist's greatest inner need, the one that would preoccupy your protagonist even if your novel's plot were never to come about. Craft a sentence or short paragraph that succinctly expresses that need.
- Pick out a scene from the middle of your WIP. Try to make this a minimally dramatic scene. Turn to a fresh sheet of paper or open a new document. Paste in the sentence or paragraph you created. This is the opening of a new version of the scene you've selected.
- With the underlying need just below the surface of your protagonist's awareness, rewrite the scene. Do not look back at the version in your WIP!
- The purpose of this rewrite of the scene is to get me, your reader, to feel the underlying need that you've identified in your protagonist. Work until you're sure I will sense it even though you don't mention it or make it plain.
- Finally, go back and delete the paragraph you pasted in at the scene's start. Done.
What you should have in a new version of this middle scene that is infused with the tension that comes from your protagonist's greatest underlying need, yearning, dream or hope. The tension will be below the surface but nevertheless felt by your readers, or should be.
A fundamental, unspoken need is the undertow that pulls your protagonist—and your readers—toward somewhere nameless yet urgently important. When that infused tension is present it makes humdrum scenes magnetic and story detours a wholly necessary part of the journey.
What's your protagonist's underlying inner need? How is it infused in the scene you're working on right now?
About Donald Maass
Donald Maass is president of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. He has written several highly acclaimed craft books for novelists including The Breakout Novelist, The Fire in Fiction, Writing the Breakout Novel and The Career Novelist.
37 Responses to "Infused"
Great advice and very timely, Donald. I am struggling with this very issue in my WIP. I have a strong sense of my protagonist's inner needs and struggles, but I am having trouble getting it on the page in a way that connects with the reader. I am going to try your exercise. A writer must keep in the forefront of his mind the character's internal goals and needs, which is not always easy to do when the writer is caught up in writing scenes.
Be sure not to simply revise the original scene, re-envision it. Get at it from a whole new angle. That will produce the best results.
Robert Olen Butler once said that, as a teacher in the PhD program at Florida State, he gets the finest writing students he could ask for. They all arrive knowing nine out of the ten things they need to know to be great writers. The thing they never seem to understand is yearning.
John Truby says it's important to first understand the weakness/need of your protagonist, well before you understand the desire/goal (the outer objective in the story). Too many novels founder because the characters scramble on the level of surface want instead of the deeper, more meaningful level of yearning/need.
But it's also true that many if not all great characters are unclear or in denial of their yearning when the story opens. The conflict the character faces in pursuing the outer objective peels away that lack of clarity or denial. The character has to ask: Is this struggle really worth it? Why am I doing this? Why not just pack up and go home? The answer is the yearning. And yeah, it's there like an obbligato throughout the story, or the text devolves into chatter.
Great exercise, Donald. I fully intend to steal it -- which is the best compliment I could possibly provide.
With you on the yearning, David. It gives a drive to the character before the story opens. So many times a new writer begins at "square one" on page one, when there should be a square occupying or--better--obsessing the character before the start.
Bob Butler is great on this topic. One could look hard and not find better illustrations of the principle at work than in his own writing.
Bob has his own method for getting there, which is simple. He is a disciplined writer (writes every day) and in each writing session has one goal: Go (as writer) to the most dangerous place he can find.
You said something interesting above, David: " all great characters are unclear or in denial of their yearning when the story opens."
True. Yet while a character may not know their own yearning you, the author, do. Or you will discover it in the process. Or you will simply sense it in the darkness, or light, in which you immerse yourself.
Great post, Donald. And so timely for me.
I'm in the middle of the "final edit" of my book. Am going to try out the exercise for a couple of scenes in my book that I was going to kill. (based on the results, one of them would stay and the other would have to go).
Thanks as always.
Let us know how it goes?
Thank you. I will most certainly post an update once I write the two scenes.
As a start though, when I pulled out the two scenes, I realized that I have another quandary. (You've made me think deeper here) My protagonist loses his memory about halfway into the book and one scene is from before and one from after. In the before scene, I know his deepest yearning. But in the after scene.... well I never thought of that. Does the core of a person and therefore the deepest yearnings stay the same or do they change? It's a question that I need to answer before I can proceed. Has his deepest yearning in the after case become a need to find who he is (his name, his identity) or does it stay the same as before. This is me thinking aloud...
Have to answer that question before I work on the scenes. Thinking, writing and seeing where this goes.
The wine stain is a wonderful metaphor. And yes, I have many times wondered at the emotional impact of a scene that seems to have no direct plot connection. Is this what Lisa Cron refers to as the 'third rail?" She calls it the 'live wire that gives meaning to everything. Everything in the plot must touch it.'
I have that one taped onto my computer. Now there will be a wine stain next to it. I spent a lot of hours pondering my protag's deepest yearning. Months, actually, because its like peeling an enormous onion. What you describe here always felt like magic to me, a 'secret' power that writers were born with! That it can be learned and practiced and crafted takes away none of the magic now. Thanks for your post.
Yes, same thing. Now, don't go actually touching the third rail in the NYC subway system. Not a good idea. But the electric current buzzing and zapping all the time, the force hurtling the train down the tracks in a story, is the protagonist's urgent, unstoppable need.
Don - You've reminded me of a fantastic post by Robin LaFevers (in which she cites you). Thanks to Robin, I started doing a pre-revision character study based on her questions. She calls the longing David mentions an inner hole to be filled, and tracks it back to a soul wound. Then she asks how that longing affects (distorts) their worldview. Here's a link, if anyone is interested: http://www.robinlafevers.com/2012/10/25/pre-writing-its-all-about-the-character/
I was looking at the protagonist for the story I've been working on, which precedes my trilogy manuscripts, and I noticed something interesting. His longing has much to do with his father, as does the longing of my protag for the trilogy. The funny part is that the longings seem to be inverse to each other. The sire longs for approval, to be worthy of his clan's glorious legacy, but the barrier he feels he must overcome is the restoration of his father's tainted honor (dad was an outcast, accused of murder). The progeny's longing is also ultimately for approval and worthiness, but he (perhaps wrongfully) considers his father's taint (also considered a killer, but an unstable one, to boot) to be a barrier.
Huh. You'd think I have daddy issues. Oddly, I always considered my dad to be an exemplary role model. We were close until his death, twenty-five years ago.
Thanks for the great exercises, Don. Off to infuse!
"His longing has much to do with his father."
Yes, that sounds right. However, as you discuss it the breach between them is based on plot circumstances rather than heart needs. Try getting down to the simple human things that your protagonist wants from the father he will never meet: a hand on his head, a warm loving look in his father's eyes. Think heart yearning.
Great advice, Don, thanks!
Great! Timely, as I'm about to launch into my first revision. This totally makes sense to me. And honestly, people do this in real life all the time. When people have a longing, yearning, or need, it doesn't just go away. It lurks there beneath your surface activities, patiently insistent. We can distract ourselves from it, but what doesn't change is that its always there affecting what you do and say.
Of course, novels need to be more distilled than real life, but this is a great reminder!!
This is awesome advice! I have compared writing to many of things but not this. This is great! i am definitely sharing this post. I love how you talked about the protagonist a lot. Many writers who write a novel do not know what a protagonist is.
And many experienced writers, while they may know what a protagonists is, they do not know their protagonists' true hearts and the longing that drives them onward.
But the protag's needs and wants are often two different things. For example, in my current wip, my young protag wants to win a track scholarship. He's focused on that goal. What he needs is to notice the suffering of those nearest to him. As Mr. Bell suggests, he crosses from his want to his need at the midpoint, though he doesn't fully accept the need for some time.
So in your example above, do I use the want of gaining a scholarship and success? Or do I hint at the need of compassion and understanding?
Your question makes me think of our six-year-old son. We point out to him all the time the difference between a "need" and a "want". Ice cream is a want. Vegetables are a need.
I'm not sure that metaphor carries over, exactly, but in your case I'd say that gaining a scholarship and success are surface wants; a deeper and truer need is to connect.
I'm with Susan in admiring your wine-stain metaphor for infusion. Through it, I know exactly what you mean: a ghostly presence that grows clear or faint, but is never wholly absent.
My central POV character's inner need is made clear to the reader from the beginning. And that need--for meaningful love and connection--is manifested in her behavior towards others. To get fancy about it, she more or less sublimates her inner need by helping others, by being a friend.
But I don't want to "infuse" every scene with Brenda Contay's deep need for a meaningful love relationship. The reason is that my story is a suspense novel. In suspense, the reader is on tenterhooks (or should be), anticipating the big, bad thing that's been getting ready to happen throughout the narrative. When it comes, I want the reader to first be shocked by how Brenda reacts, but then see how that reaction makes perfect sense in terms of her inner need. If up to that point I've given too much emphasis to her need, I think I risk losing the second half of my one-two punch.
Hmm. Thrillers are an interesting case in point. Virtually all thriller manuscripts motivate characters--cause them to act--because of external plot circumstances. That's okay, as far as it goes, but it's one of the reasons that thriller characters often feel shallow and cardboard, puppets running at high speed.
Now, thriller writers often are good at keeping things in motion and often that's enough to carry us along. There may be a big internal change at the end, a self-realization, and that's fine--at the end. But truthfully there is no reason whatsoever that a thriller hero or heroine cannot from the beginning be driven by a yearning inside. (See Harlan Coben's protagonists.)
Those protagonists grip our hearts, rather than just cause us to keep turning pages. Just sayin'.
Thank you. It would seem that you don't make a distinction between suspense and thriller novels. My understanding (highly simplified) is that in thrillers, the protagonist is throughout struggling to prevent a disaster. In suspense, the action builds toward a disaster, but the protagonist is often not aware of what's coming. In other words, suspense has more access in its toolbox to dramatic irony. I'm a great fan of this. I like it as a reader, and as a writer, the reader placed in a position of superior knowledge, watching the disaster build, all the while watching the protagonist acting in ignorance of what's coming.
Don, I often think I know what that yearning or need is for my characters before I write, and while executing the early chapters, but usually it becomes far more clear to me nearer the halfway point through a manuscript.
I'm 2/3 through my WIP, which has six POV characters, and this is the very thing I'll be focusing on for each of them when I go back in for a revision later this year. Thank you! I need to be reminded of these things over and over again.
Congratulations on your Christie Award for Burning Sky!
Thank you, Don!
Beautiful analogy, Donald (I love red wine). What we yearn for, as writers and for our characters, is everything. Thanks so much for the reminder to crank up the tension on every page of our novel.
I love red wine too. My abiding passion for the cabernets for the Alexander Valley has given way to an extended flirtation--maybe affair?--with the tempranillo's of Spain. Ah, those foreigners! So seductive.
Don this is really great, especially in a novel where a protagonist's story is progressing through a tight time arc, even as a big, scene-stealing disaster unfolds. Back to WIP—on deadline—but wanted to say: READ and USING!
I'm midway through the ms of The Far End of Happy--whoa, what a heart gripper! (Which is not to say that you can't grip us even harder!)
Hello Donald,
Thanks for yet another enticing post. You echo the advice I've internalized after my last round of query workshops: "What is your protagonist's main goal? What obstacles are in his/her way? What does he/she do to overcome them?" Every day when I sit down to write, I ask myself these questions, along with, "how can I make this stand out even more?" (Often the answer is to raise the stakes; "what does he have to lose? How can things get worse for him? How can this pay off?").
Putting your message together with Lisa Cron's, I think there is a useful lesson for all of us: Conflict drives story. It is the railway that carries us from beginning to end. Plot is the tracks that direct your characters across the landscape of your narrative, but a train goes nowhere without an electric surge - a character's core desire, be it conscious or subconscious. Plot away all your like, but if you lack this in any part of your story, then the train grinds to a halt (that's as jarring a sound as silent readers). Conversely, even when the tracks might be ordinary, if they are charged with current your reader zooms ahead, eager for a window seat beside the character they've bonded with. Immediately, Song of Ice and Fire comes to mind. I remember reading the books, and when I read book four, the one many readers complain has no plot, I felt compelled to read as much as in any other. Why? I think it is because Mr. Martin connects so well to his characters' core desires, so the side-by-side journey compelled me to read; from this author I learned that a story can be exciting even without an exciting play-by-play.
We can extend this further to our own writing. If we're relying on plot to keep a story moving, let's try again. What about character? What about connecting to that character's deep yearnings? Think logo design. Excellent logos have unity and strength, but are simple. They speak their message strong and clear. Complicated logos get overlooked if they bury the message. So we, as writers, must remember to connect to our characters, always, on every page, even if it means rewriting whole scenes with radical new (and simpler) approaches to get to what matter most.
Ah! You've got it exactly. George Martin's novels are an excellent illustration too. No plot? Maybe not, but there's plenty of the true story and that's what pulls us along.
Now I must go design my own logo. Now there's a challenge.
Good luck on the logo! I've heard that, for best results, you're best making plenty of sketches (20+) before you settle on one design. Hmm...I bet that idea carries over into writing.
This was a fantastic post along with all the helpful comments and examples. I am starting a revision of a book that's a wooden as it gets because I'm still writing it on a surface level ... the reader cannot feel my heart. Your exercise makes it less torturous to expose it. Thank you.
Yearning. Yes. It drives us all, in ways we can see and ways we can't. I write series fiction -- cozy mystery, another subgenre where, like thrillers, the external plot sometimes gets the bulk of the writer's attention, but delving into the characters' longings will give the readers a deeper experience. In fact, I think exploring that yearning and its many layers is crucial to making series fiction work.
Thanks for another good lesson!
I think this is a brilliant way to really get to the core of the protagonist! I am now realizing that one of the reasons I get so frustrated when I am working on a short story or novel, is the lack of depth some of my characters seem to have. I want my readers to know who the character is; not just read who the character is. This method is going to help me out tremendously! Great post!
Perfect post for me right now as well, Donald, thank you! Just picked up my marked up copy of the FIRE IN FICTION again yesterday, because I felt I needed a boost. Then today, I see this post! Are you connected to my writing vibes?! I have a white rug with the remnant of a red wine stain from my wonderful, but highly rigid and clumsy father-in-law, who passed away just a couple of years ago. I look at that stain and I am reminded of the deep nature of the man that that stain represents to me now. I'll never get rid of that rug!
Red wine...seeping, characters actualized through their deep longings. That is exactly what is missing in those sagging middle chapters of mine. It's not enough to string the events, the depth of each one is really what I, as a reader, want! You're the best, thank you for this great gift today!
Wonderful post, thank you so much Don! That heart yearning is so much what I need to focus on in my story.
I'm struggling with the word count constraints of a novella, and it's easy to let plot run the show and end up with a story that feels shallow and contrived. Focusing on infusing that core need into every scene, even if the character isn't consciously aware of it yet, is precisely what will add the emotional depth I don't want to lose.
I love this post, Don, and the comments were an added bonus. I've always described that stain as "psychological weather" or a "psychic stain", oddly enough.


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hi im a stay at home mom and i love being around my 4 month old baby boy, but being at home all the time is boring. Although my son keeps me on the go 24/7 but still i feel like...
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Made from a mix, this cake bakes up in 30 minutes and can be decorated in 10 minutes or so. Want to make one without artificial colors? Change the cake mix to white or chocolate and leave out the raspberry flavor mix and mix in 2 tsp of raspberry jelly.
White Chocolate Raspberry Torte Cake Recipe
- 1 Duncan Hines® Red Velvet Cake Mix (requires 3 eggs and 1⁄3 cup vegetable oil)
- 1 cup Duncan Hines Comstock or Wilderness Raspberry Pie Filling
- 1 can Duncan Hines® Frosting Creations Frosting Starter
- 1 packet Duncan Hines Frosting Creations™ White Chocolate Raspberry Flavor Mix
- Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F.
- Grease and flour two 8" round cake or torte pans.
- Prepare cake batter as directed on package.
- Pour into pans; bake 25 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean. Let cool.
- In a Duncan Hines® Frosting Creations Frosting Starter stir in packet of Duncan Hines Frosting Creations White Chocolate Raspberry Flavor Mix. Stir until evenly blended.
- In a small bowl, combine 1 cup of Duncan Hines Comstock Raspberry Pie Filling with 1 cup of the just mixed White Chocolate Raspberry frosting. Mix well.
- Transfer the remaining frosting to a piping bag with an large open star tip.
- Divide the Raspberry Pie Filling mixture and spread half on top of each torte. Stop within a 1⁄2" from the edge of the cakes.
- Pipe a circle of the White Chocolate Raspberry frosting around edge of each cake.
- Chill for 20 minutes and serve.
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