While I was feeling very uninspired to write a blog post (the couch and netflix sounding much more interesting), I remembered I’d downloaded a sweet little ebook filled with writing prompts that help in moving my novel along. So here’s to completing two tasks in one swoop : blog post and working on my book.
The prompt I’m going to do is all about finding out what is missing in my hero. And how has it changed them, pushing them out of their comfort zone and into the special world of the story? How has that missing thing left them broken? “Your hero’s flaw lies in that broken place”
Georgia is my MC (main character). What I’m thinking so far is that it’s a broken heart/lacking purpose in her life. It’s kind of a combo problem because the person she fell in love with – years ago – was the one to make her look past her ‘perfect’ life and start searching for a purpose, a passion. She became more settled, less frivolous of a person as she sought to better herself and her life. For years though, she’s pushed the restlessness, the emptiness, aside and buried it deep. But it’s about to intrude on her life in a way that she won’t be able to ignore it anymore.
Having that emptiness, that pain, has spoiled all her childish dreams for her future. She must let them go in order to seek the remedy for her broken heart. She’s going to have to disappoint those she holds most dear if she wants to find her purpose. She comes to realize that she can’t stay in the same routine she’s been in if she wants to be fulfilled.
I think she’s always been broken. The way she was raised was very…hmm, one could say, lacking in the most important things in life. She was taught that what’s on the outside is what matters. And that maintaining ones social standing is the most important thing, no matter really what you have to do to get there.
Does this mean she has a hard time looking past others’ appearance, and seeing into who they truly are? Or that, even when she’s broken out of that world, and into the special world, that she still sees people based on their social standing?
I think I’m going to have to mull over how her flaw ties into that broken place….and how to work it into my plot board.
~Laura
the start of a good life 
My friend, author Lisa Nowak, has written a couple series of books and she is excellent in developing a hero and heroine who are slightly dented but amazing. Her McCall Initiative series is wonderfully in depth. I highly suggest her writing!!
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i’ll check her books out – I’m finding I look for that now when I read books now. Story development. Depth in the characters. Gone are the days when I just read the story as is, without the writer mentality as well!
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