Making Yourself A Character In Your Story #2

Three good, practical reasons for doing it

Hello! I wanted to build on last week’s free post by focusing on three good, practical reasons for making yourself a character in your story – how it can solve all kinds of storytelling problems, how it might (gulp) help you get work, and how it can take your writing to interesting, experimental places, encouraging you to mix up styles and create something original.

There are many pitfalls, of course. If you do it badly, it’s BAD. But I’ll save that for a future column. So, here goes:

1. It can solve all kinds of storytelling problems

Writing is hard. Maybe like me you stagger out of your room at the end of the day feeling exhausted and broken. That’s ok, though, because writing should be hard. But to make things easier, how about something like this: