Fresh Ideas for creative Writing:
(1) Make the reader identify with your Charachters
(2) Make the reader sympathize with your charachters
(3) Ditto: Empathy
(4) Begin with Menacing your hero
(5) You Must put your protaganist in a situation , a state of anxiety & Apprehension
(6) Light the Fuse
(7) Make your reader wonder & Worry
(8) Put your charachters somewhere they do not belong or do not fit it, IE: Jail
(9) Force your protaganist to deal with something new and unfamiliar
(10) Introduce whacky Charachters
(11) Determine the ruining pasion that drives your hero- it is the underlying motivation determining what your charachter will or will not do, how far will he/she go when faced with the ultimate dilema. She must react!
(12) The charachters dramatic decision to change his passion ups the stakes and enhances his goal
(13) READ "HOW TO WRITE A DAMN GOOD NOVEL & THEN READ "HOW TO WRITE A DAMN GOOD NOVEL 11, by James N. Frey
