We are all part of the Zoom phenom. My critique group had to go that route. Although I have 21 members, only four show up for weekly Zoom meetings. Anybody interested, please contact me. There's no charge.
Zooming and the like, Covid, strange politics (like not wearing a mask), non-violence, and other current problems are grist for the writer's mill, For romances it's simple. Boy meets girl on Zoom and you write the rest. Any fiction could use these new problems and don't be surpirsed when you see one on the NYT best seller list.
No matter what trope new or old you use all stories must have a purpose. Not that you bang people over the head with it. Since stories are put together around characters, all characters must also have a purpose. Try this test: write down the names of every character and put next to them their purposes. The more you write about a character the more the purpose shifts. And bravo to you if your character does a 180. In real life people change and so should your characters. Otherwise, where's the drama. Your reader will say so what if all he/she gets is slices of life. This happened, I was emotional. That happened, I was emotional. How about, this happened, and character x saw the light. He's now able to let love into his life. Or, she's able to see through the smoke screen left by the antagonist, after leaving self-doubt behind.
In my current novel set for release in 2021 by The Wild Rose Press, I write about two kids wanting to go to college, both held up for different reasons. Both, surprised that their best shot at college lies in each other as two strangers who would never had met. They must both confront changes to their purposes. until their purposes merge into one.
Zooming and the like, Covid, strange politics (like not wearing a mask), non-violence, and other current problems are grist for the writer's mill, For romances it's simple. Boy meets girl on Zoom and you write the rest. Any fiction could use these new problems and don't be surpirsed when you see one on the NYT best seller list.
No matter what trope new or old you use all stories must have a purpose. Not that you bang people over the head with it. Since stories are put together around characters, all characters must also have a purpose. Try this test: write down the names of every character and put next to them their purposes. The more you write about a character the more the purpose shifts. And bravo to you if your character does a 180. In real life people change and so should your characters. Otherwise, where's the drama. Your reader will say so what if all he/she gets is slices of life. This happened, I was emotional. That happened, I was emotional. How about, this happened, and character x saw the light. He's now able to let love into his life. Or, she's able to see through the smoke screen left by the antagonist, after leaving self-doubt behind.
In my current novel set for release in 2021 by The Wild Rose Press, I write about two kids wanting to go to college, both held up for different reasons. Both, surprised that their best shot at college lies in each other as two strangers who would never had met. They must both confront changes to their purposes. until their purposes merge into one.
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