2009

New year, new resolve to work on the book! I'm headed back to basics this month to fill in some gaps. Started out by re-reading James Smith's You Can Write a Novel, and I'm working through his basic steps for setting things up, starting with character cards.

You know what's hard? Fatal flaws are hard. I know enough from fan fiction to tell you that one sure sign of a Mary Sue is if her biggest flaw is that she's too pretty, or too nice; stupid flaws that aren't really flaws are the mark of an amateur. Fatal flaws should be, well, possibly fatal. But it's really freaking hard to come up with them.

What would your fatal flaw be if you were a character in a book? I'm not even sure about my own...