Characterisation is yeast. Without it, your bread novel turns into a pancake yawn fest. But building well rounded characters that are captivating enough to keep readers up till 3am finishing your book can be a bit of an enigma.
If you’ve hung around long enough you’ll know I like to draw inspiration from all branches of the crazy tree.
Today, I’ve pilfered methodology from a thespian.
I know. I know. *Gasps dramatically* “But we’re writers. We’re introverts.”
*ahem, technically I’m not. Something about a mix up at the sperm bank, don’t tell anyone.*
But whether you’re introverted or not is irrelevant. It’s the methodology that’s important, not the acting itself. Although if anyone fancies throwing a little skit at the Bloggers Bash, I’m more than up for whipping out my inner diva…
Constantin Stanislavski was a Russian actor, director and all round smarty pants. He developed a model to train actors to act…
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LOL… pancake yawn fest. That’s fabulous. Hugs.
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hehe thanks Teagan 🙂
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hugs back 🙂 🙂
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Fantabulous post! 🙂
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Thank you Debby 🙂
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Hello Adele – where is your re-blog button?
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oh, I`ll have to check, I thought it was okay. Thank you, Kate for pointing this out. Hopefully, it`s a glitch if not I`ll get it sorted. 🙂
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