So I’m reading Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell (Genius I say! Pure Genius!) and I’m filling out this questionnaire about me. I thought to myself, I should do this for my MC too. Why not see how well I know her! (Considering I invented her!)
I get to the question “What are the things you (or in this case my MC) good at?
Total FAIL moment!
I mean Epic FAIL!!!
I’ve been working on this book for almost a year now (ok so half that year the book was still in my head and not on paper…but still!) and I cannot for the life of me come up with something my character is good at!
How is this possible?!?!
I went through all the skills and talents a person can have (Google is full of wonderful information) and could not for the life of me choose one that fit her personality.
I mean how is being able to do that going to help my plot along??? Has anyone ever had this problem? Should not having a talent just be one of her quirks? Would it be strange to give her a talent that has nothing to do with the overall story?
What are your characters talents? I mean everyone needs to be good at something!
luda
i was thinking that perhaps if there was interest we could just start a writers group .luda