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5/30/2018

How far would you go?

On Twitter, Paula Puddephatt responded to my blog post about the myth that all writers are alcoholic, depressed, and starving.

I relate. I can say, my characters go through hell, and I have, but not the exact same hell. I think I need to blog about some of this...x
— Paula Puddephatt (@paulapuddephatt) June 25, 2017

Her words struck a chord with me. As writers, we use our experiences to inform our characters' emotions—even when their experiences are different. It's just like method acting, I thought. After all, how many times have I been in a bad mood after a writing a particularly difficult moment in a character's journey? My writing bleeds into my daily life. In a sense, I become these characters—I take on their emotions. Is that not the same as method acting?

A quick search of the term "method writing" shows that I am not the first to consider this.

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Keeping Priorities in Line

5/22/2018

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This post is a bit of an update and a bit of a reminder about something that I talk about all the time: priorities.

If you scroll back through my blog, you'll notice that the last post was March of this year. Ideally, I like to post once a week, at the bare minimum, so over two months without a post is definitely not what I'm shooting for.

So Tori, where have you been?

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