Jenny Schwartz

Tag: character development

  • Seven Universal Motivations

    I hesitated over this title. A motivation is the why of what you want to achieve. It is what drives your actions. In crafting stories, classic plots include the revenge plot or searching for love. But wind back to the heart of the story, of why it’s being written, of what journey the protagonist is…

  • Fever by Elizabeth Lowell

    I picked up an old copy of Fever by Elizabeth Lowell the other day and it reduced me to tears — that’s a good thing! It means I was caught up in the emotion. On the whole, I try not to analyse why some books “work” for me as a reader. But this time it was…