How to Write A Novel, Step 5.1: Character is Action
I kept saying in Step 5 that character is action, and I promised to explain myself (eventually). This is how I see it. So, we’ve made those tentative first steps in getting to know our characters... perhaps we’ve built a file with vivid descriptions of what they look like, we’ve thought about how they speak, how they dress, how they see the world. Perhaps we are starting to see them as real people who inhabit that other world, the world of our imaginations, and we may even ha