Sharing Experiences with Your Characters – On the RMFW Blog

In our writing, we often make our characters go through experiences we haven’t gone through ourselves, such as breaking a horse, picking a lock, riding in an ambulance, or frosting a wedding cake. It’s so easy to fall back on the internet and watch videos or read blog posts about how those experiences might feel. But internet videos are second-hand at best—pale imitations of the real thing. Add realism to your scenes and your characters in your writing by living through some of the same experiences. I talk about this and more on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog here: “Share Experiences with Your Characters.”