Thursday, January 14, 2010

Wouldn't Be Caught?


Wendy Miller's recent post at All in a Day's Thought 
shared a short exercise using this phrase:
"Wouldn't be Caught..."

Wendy was using it for her novel's MC and asked readers to share their thoughts. I thought it provided great food for thought for character development. I bookmarked the post for use with my teen writing students. I think it will be a great writing stretcher with potential as a prompt, too.

Check it out and let me know what you think. I'd love to hear where it takes you!

Blessings and Happy Writing:)

10 comments:

Jessica said...

I read Wendy's blog but somehow missed that. Thanks for pointing it out. :-)

Karen Lange said...

Hi Jessica,
You are welcome. I thought it was a great idea and such an interesting exercise! Thanks so much for stopping:)
Blessings!

Terri Tiffany said...

Graet excersize in knowing our characters better! Now--did I spell that word correctly??

Karen Lange said...

Terri,
It is a great way to get to know our characters better, and try some character traits on them to see if we like them or not.
Blessings!

Susan J. Reinhardt said...

Hi Karen -

I'll have to try this with my main character in Book 3. She's opinionated, and I'm sure she'd have plenty of things she'd never do.

Blessings,
Susan :)

Karen Lange said...

Susan,
I thought you might like this for her. I'm thinking there are some other characters we might like to try:)
Blessings!

Tamika: said...

I remember this post from Wendy, it was a lot of fun. I learned a lot about my character.

Now if I can only remember what my answers for her were?!

Karen Lange said...

Tamika,
This was a good post. I don't know if I can remember my answers either! I need to go back and check:)
Blessings!

Jeanette Levellie said...

I loved this exercise. Wendy is so creative! Thanks for directing me to it again.

I think your teens will love it, Karen!

Karen Lange said...

Jeanette,
Wendy IS creative! And yes, I think that my students will enjoy it.
Blessings!