Comments on: Lightening and Sharing the Hero’s Burden http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/lightening-and-sharing-the-heros-burden/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:47:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rachael Phillips http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/lightening-and-sharing-the-heros-burden/comment-page-1/#comment-3330 Rachael Phillips Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:55:37 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5621#comment-3330 In my first contracted fiction, a comic romance novella, I found, to my surprise, that the heroine's and hero's grandchildren provided not only comic relief, but powered the spiritual direction of the story. I hadn't planned the theme of "a little child shall lead them," but how can you turn down cute little kids? In my first contracted fiction, a comic romance novella, I found, to my surprise, that the heroine’s and hero’s grandchildren provided not only comic relief, but powered the spiritual direction of the story. I hadn’t planned the theme of “a little child shall lead them,” but how can you turn down cute little kids?

]]> By: Brian T. Carroll http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/lightening-and-sharing-the-heros-burden/comment-page-1/#comment-3328 Brian T. Carroll Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:06:07 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5621#comment-3328 My WIP novel isn't a hero story, but characters can jump onto the page in other kinds of stories, as well. I put my novel on a back burner for 30 years while busy with other things, but had always pictured a scene where my character shows up late at a San Francisco gathering to support his wife's candidacy for office. But when I actually wrote the scene and got him there, I realized I wasn't sure what else he needed to do there. So I had him saunter over to the campaign manager and ask what he could do to be helpful. To my total surprise, the manager pointed across the room and said, "Fellow in the chair, the sumo wrestler with the Elvis hairdo..." Two chapters later, this new member of the cast showed up in a different scene where I had not expected him. Now he's in for the duration. My WIP novel isn’t a hero story, but characters can jump onto the page in other kinds of stories, as well. I put my novel on a back burner for 30 years while busy with other things, but had always pictured a scene where my character shows up late at a San Francisco gathering to support his wife’s candidacy for office. But when I actually wrote the scene and got him there, I realized I wasn’t sure what else he needed to do there. So I had him saunter over to the campaign manager and ask what he could do to be helpful. To my total surprise, the manager pointed across the room and said, “Fellow in the chair, the sumo wrestler with the Elvis hairdo…” Two chapters later, this new member of the cast showed up in a different scene where I had not expected him. Now he’s in for the duration.

]]> By: Teri Dawn Smith http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/lightening-and-sharing-the-heros-burden/comment-page-1/#comment-3327 Teri Dawn Smith Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:22:51 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5621#comment-3327 One surprise I had was that after I started writing, it turned out that the antagonist wasn't really the antagonist. (I think I started loving him too much.) Someone in the periphery ended in being the bad guy. One surprise I had was that after I started writing, it turned out that the antagonist wasn’t really the antagonist. (I think I started loving him too much.) Someone in the periphery ended in being the bad guy.

]]> By: NikoleHahn http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/lightening-and-sharing-the-heros-burden/comment-page-1/#comment-3325 NikoleHahn Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:51:14 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5621#comment-3325 "How is Rainy going to travel into time?" My husband asked with both hands on the steering wheel. We were on our way to church while my mind churned on a new ebook idea. "A time machine has been used and used." I rubbed my lower lip. Granite Mountain rose from the flat praries still covered with last weeks snow. "An old basement. A supernatural being, maybe an angel, who wants to teach this hippie about the lessons of our past. An old basement below a coffee shop filled with old books and collectables owned by a ecentric coffee shop owner with his own problems." What evolved from this thinking was my ebook, The Time Traveler, my monthly adventure into honing my writing craft. The coffee shop owner is the background character and after the prologue and the first chapter has evolved into another background story that will change Rainy's life and alter things. Of course, then there's Rainy's "boyfriend," and he is going to cause trouble. “How is Rainy going to travel into time?” My husband asked with both hands on the steering wheel. We were on our way to church while my mind churned on a new ebook idea.

“A time machine has been used and used.” I rubbed my lower lip. Granite Mountain rose from the flat praries still covered with last weeks snow. “An old basement. A supernatural being, maybe an angel, who wants to teach this hippie about the lessons of our past. An old basement below a coffee shop filled with old books and collectables owned by a ecentric coffee shop owner with his own problems.” What evolved from this thinking was my ebook, The Time Traveler, my monthly adventure into honing my writing craft. The coffee shop owner is the background character and after the prologue and the first chapter has evolved into another background story that will change Rainy’s life and alter things. Of course, then there’s Rainy’s “boyfriend,” and he is going to cause trouble.

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