A lot of you have here coincides with my own shift in writing over the past decade. I also have Stephen King's On Writing on my shelf, but I found Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird far more influential and way more resonant to what you're stating here. Absolutely solid advice.
No 2 is the clincher. It's akin to layers of an onion. People we know in real life, we know from the outside in, depending how many layers they show to us. Our characters we must know from the inside out so we understand *why* they react the way they do.
A lot of you have here coincides with my own shift in writing over the past decade. I also have Stephen King's On Writing on my shelf, but I found Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird far more influential and way more resonant to what you're stating here. Absolutely solid advice.
Good post.
No 2 is the clincher. It's akin to layers of an onion. People we know in real life, we know from the outside in, depending how many layers they show to us. Our characters we must know from the inside out so we understand *why* they react the way they do.