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Posted in Writing Basics, Writing for children on Jan 22nd, 2009
I’m in the midst of rewriting a YA novel for the third time and was explaining to a friend of mine what I was doing.
“I’m adding a new character to the first chapter, and moving the last scene to the fourth chapter and ratcheting up my main character’s angst another notch or two and shifting [...]
Posted in Writing Basics, Writing for children on Jan 21st, 2009
There is a weird kind of alchemy which makes characters come alive on a page. It has to do with what I think of as the “five dimensions of character.”
In geometry, the four dimensions are . . .
breadth,
depth,
height and
time.
In writing, this translates into the following:
Physical setting–does the story take place in one location, [...]
Grian McFadden writes award winning fiction and non-fiction for and about children, as well as teaching materials for various educational publishers.