http://www.isabellablack.co.uk/2009/12/07/freewriting-with-write-or-die/ Some ramblings and stuff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:30:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.isabellablack.co.uk/2009/12/07/freewriting-with-write-or-die/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Natalie E Bowers Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:38:31 +0000 http://www.isabellablack.co.uk/2009/12/07/freewriting-with-write-or-die/#comment-146 Hi. :-) I read something the other day that helped me get my TMA of the ground. It said something along the lines of 'You don't just need a situation for a story, you need a complication as well.' Perhaps you could have something happen to your girl on the Vespa. Just think about her riding along and imagine what might happen to her. Does she see something that makes her crash? Does she blow a tyre? Does she spot an ex-boyfriend? Does she come across and accident and save someone's life? Or have her come out of her apartment in the morning to find her Vespa gone. Who might have taken it? Why? Where are they going? Maybe she comes out of work and finds a note from a secret admirer stuck to the bike? Or a note from an angry motorist? Or a parking ticket? Maybe the Vespa gets vandalised and she has to take the bus to work. Or maybe her mother tells her she's too old to ride a bike and should grow up and drive a car. Try throwing a spanner in the works and see where that takes you. I often find that I find out more about my characters by putting them in a scene and writing about them than I do if I just try to come up with them in isolation. Alternatively you could come up with a character checklist such as the one outlined at the top of p74 of the BRB. Hope some of this helps. :-) Hi. I read something the other day that helped me get my TMA of the ground. It said something along the lines of ‘You don’t just need a situation for a story, you need a complication as well.’ Perhaps you could have something happen to your girl on the Vespa. Just think about her riding along and imagine what might happen to her. Does she see something that makes her crash? Does she blow a tyre? Does she spot an ex-boyfriend? Does she come across and accident and save someone’s life? Or have her come out of her apartment in the morning to find her Vespa gone. Who might have taken it? Why? Where are they going? Maybe she comes out of work and finds a note from a secret admirer stuck to the bike? Or a note from an angry motorist? Or a parking ticket? Maybe the Vespa gets vandalised and she has to take the bus to work. Or maybe her mother tells her she’s too old to ride a bike and should grow up and drive a car. Try throwing a spanner in the works and see where that takes you. I often find that I find out more about my characters by putting them in a scene and writing about them than I do if I just try to come up with them in isolation. Alternatively you could come up with a character checklist such as the one outlined at the top of p74 of the BRB. Hope some of this helps.

]]> http://www.isabellablack.co.uk/2009/12/07/freewriting-with-write-or-die/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Rachel Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:21:13 +0000 http://www.isabellablack.co.uk/2009/12/07/freewriting-with-write-or-die/#comment-145 How strange. I'm reading timjnx's reply apparently posted at 3:23 and yet it is only 3:20... How strange. I’m reading timjnx’s reply apparently posted at 3:23 and yet it is only 3:20…

]]> http://www.isabellablack.co.uk/2009/12/07/freewriting-with-write-or-die/comment-page-1/#comment-144 timjnx Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:23:19 +0000 http://www.isabellablack.co.uk/2009/12/07/freewriting-with-write-or-die/#comment-144 I think that the girl on the pink vespa lives a double life of being totally the coolest person her cool but hard friends know, whilst running trips for the elderly. She started helping her gran and now has an army for OAPs she helps, but she can't let her cool mates find out, and has to explain why she's not always around and sometimes has strange things in her back, like Potters Cough sweets or Eucryl tooth powder. I think that the girl on the pink vespa lives a double life of being totally the coolest person her cool but hard friends know, whilst running trips for the elderly. She started helping her gran and now has an army for OAPs she helps, but she can’t let her cool mates find out, and has to explain why she’s not always around and sometimes has strange things in her back, like Potters Cough sweets or Eucryl tooth powder.

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