Writing Tip #5: One of the best tools a writer has is the question “What if?”
Sometimes characters in a story fight you as you try to form
them, as you try to manipulate their world. When that happens, play What If? What if she liked him? What if she wasn’t
allowed to like him? Or…What if she didn’t like him, but he liked her? What if
she liked him but he was in trouble with the law? What if they were fated to
meet, fell in loved and were sucked up into a UFO for alien experimentation?
Go crazy! Consider any scenario. What If allows me to break down
walls that might be inhibiting my imagination. Somewhere along the way, I’ll
often find the situation that will work, and my characters and I will be on our
way again.
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