Historical Romantic Suspense Author

L. J. Dare

  • HOME

  • BOOKS

  • BIO

  • CONTACT

  • BLOG

  • More

    Featured Posts

    Blog #1,2/7/2017

    February 8, 2017

    1/1
    Please reload

    Recent Posts

    WRITING is hot & sizzling in the desert--

    August 20, 2019

    As a writer

    April 25, 2018

    BLOG #15 -  VILLAINS ON A STORY BOARD

    November 1, 2017

    BLOG #14 - INCLUDING CHARACTER FLAWS

    July 5, 2017

    Developing the Heroine's Journey on a Story Board

    May 10, 2017

    Part 2: Romance Elements

    April 25, 2017

    CREATING A STORY BOARD-PLOT

    April 18, 2017

    Road Trip

    April 14, 2017

    - Finding the will power to write through all the crazy distractions-

    March 28, 2017

    Finding the time, energy and the will power to write.

    March 21, 2017

    Please reload

    Search By Tags

    Adventure

    CHaracters

    Contemporary

    Flaws

    Road Trip

    The King's Blade

    The King's Spy

    bad guys

    bare bones

    characters

    crazy world

    creating

    energy

    goals

    helicopter

    humility

    locations

    photo

    plots

    reading

    research

    story board

    tick

    time

    travel

    villain

    will power

    Please reload

    Follow Us
    • Facebook Classic
    • Twitter Classic
    • Google Classic

    Developing the Heroine's Journey on a Story Board

    May 10, 2017

     

    First of all, in order to understand your characters, you need to know/decide upon your hero//heroine and villain’s goal, motivation and conflict.  I recommend and use, Debra Dixon’s book:  Goal, Motivation & Conflict: The Building Blocks of Good Fiction.   Using this book as a basis along with the previously mentioned The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler I was fortunate to come across in the fall of 2015, an author by the name of Laurie Schnebly.  She teaches a variety of writing classes.  For more information contact her website:  booklaurie@yahoo.com or at a website known as Writer’s University with an email address of.  WriterU4@yahoogroups.com .  She has a newsletter and has been a tremendous help.                               

     

    She has developed this amazing month long class entitled:  The Heroine’s Journey.  In the class you discover there are 13 steps to use to grow your heroine and effect change.  I wrote each of these steps on separate/small white squares, backed them on black poster board, laminated then posted them on a yellow strip of poster board, starting at the bottom of the board with #1 and finishing at the top of the board with #13.   Once again, each time my heroine completes a step, I staple a check mark over it.  

     

    Next Week I will discuss Part 4- Character Flaws   

    Share on Facebook
    Share on Twitter
    Please reload

    • Instagram - Black Circle
    • Facebook Social Icon
    • Twitter Social Icon

    ​FOLLOW ME

    © 2017 L. J. Dare website/blog. Proudly created with Wix.com