Showing posts with label Climb into Your Character's Head. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Climb into Your Character's Head. Show all posts

Monday, September 26, 2022

How to Use an Actor's Tool to Write More Compelling Characters


by Ane Mulligan @AneMulligan

An actor gets into character by slipping inside skin—or head if you will of their role. It’s a mental exercise to shelve your own thoughts, feeling, reactions, etc. to become the character. 

It’s much the same in writing. We, the author, must climb inside our POV character’s head and write what she or he sees without telling the reader she saw it.