Comments on: Novel Progress http://www.shawn-scarber.com/novel-progress/ Exploring Story Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:42:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dal Jeanis http://www.shawn-scarber.com/novel-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Dal Jeanis Thu, 07 May 2009 17:31:02 +0000 http://www.shawn-scarber.com/?p=170#comment-119 That's always a fun option. When one or more of my characters are laying limp and brainless on the page, I pull them out and temporarily replace them with others. Okay, Kraydja can't get herself out of this fix... what would Batman do? What about Shirley Temple? General Patton? Donald Trump? Donald Duck? Just the process of looking at the problem through very different eyes can free the creative juices. That’s always a fun option.

When one or more of my characters are laying limp and brainless on the page, I pull them out and temporarily replace them with others. Okay, Kraydja can’t get herself out of this fix… what would Batman do? What about Shirley Temple? General Patton? Donald Trump? Donald Duck?

Just the process of looking at the problem through very different eyes can free the creative juices.

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