That's right. Every Friday, I'm going to share with ya'll a lesson my characters have learned sometime earlier that week while I wrote their story. Because we all know that sometimes the best lessons are ones learned in a more painful way than not (usually). It also serves to act as a way to share vague plot devices: what are the many ways you can get your characters into trouble? Read on to find out.
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Project: UNTITLED (Hansel + Gretel retelling)
Genre: Short Story
Lesson Learned: Always be sure of your way, or at least make sure the person in charge is sure of their way. And if you still don't trust their sense of direction, take some initiative and bring something to mark down your path? Or at least a map? Because getting lost is a sure-fire way of getting into sticky situations.
Really, you never know who you might run into when you can't find your way home. Thieves, beggars, a witch or two...there's troublemakers of all kind in unfamiliar territory.
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Do you write? Can your characters relate? Have your characters learned an important life lesson this week? Leave me a note in the comments!
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My WIP... short story COUNTDOWN. My mc learns that control and order won't keep death from knocking.
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