The Place For My Writers Notes

original posting: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:54:00 -0400

Character is like a cardboard carton on a bonfire.

Huh?  Think of the carton burning on the bonfire (which bonfire?  An autumn fest, a mid-winter life-saver, a witch's last chance to repent, or...) and that carton (what carton?  What did it hold?  What colors, what sayings surround it?).

Then think about character, and how that might relate to the carton on the fire.

And tell us what you think!

"Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a
story."  Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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