We’re five days into NaNoWriMo. Have you written every day? Have you found your protagonist? Have you established conflict? Try this: Today’s NaNoWriMo Exercise: Not All Bad, an Exercise in Character & Complexity Write about a terrible deed from the point of view of someone who doesn’t find the deed objectionable. Why: literature, like life, is populated with characters who don’t see themselves as other see them. Just think of Hubmert Humbert, the infamous, silver-tongued hero/villain of Nabokov’s Lolita. One thing that makes the novel so fascinating is the fact that, despite Humbert’s villainy, we joyfully hang on for...
