cornerofmadness

Yes a day early and not necessarily with anything important to say.

Between something I'm finding in editing and my friend, ES sending me this article Cast of thousands, I had a small nugget of wisdom to share. While I don't know that everything in that article speaks to me, I do know I often struggle with huge casts of characters and worse, I have a terrible habit of either a) not naming minor characters right away or b) changing the name fives times because I've forgotten it.

I guess I'll have to use this hack more diligently: if they get a name they go immediately into a master file reading Names- story file name. That will save me so much time, effort and tears.

Now to hold myself to it.

And this one says exactly what I've been saying for years. I guess it's really the whole point of nano: Don’t Get it Right, get it written It's about first drafts, not shirking your realism details.

Speaking of which I ask you this, would YOU read a book where in the first chapter all the characters use Ned Flanderisms instead of cursing and do the following things: the main point of view character (a consignment shop owner) who is stumping on the phone for her mother (a judge running for office) and resorts to calling people names when they don't see the goodness in voting for mom; Mom the judge then punches her smamry opponent in the face in an argument and lastly when the pov character and her aunt finds smamry dead actually says 'don't touch that. It might have scumbucket cooties.'

And probably one of my favorite ones ES has sent in a while! - Sympathetic villains

Yearly Count (wow it's pathetic)