Comments on: Learning to Write X http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/learning-to-write-x/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Sat, 19 May 2012 08:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Bill Liversidge http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/learning-to-write-x/comment-page-1/#comment-15311 Bill Liversidge Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:30:02 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/learning-to-write-x/#comment-15311 That's pretty neat. I guess you can extend the technique beyond charm to give a well-rounded credibility -or any other attributes you care to chose - to your character through the eyes of others. Hm. Lots to think about in this post. Thanks. <strong>jb says</strong>: Hi Bill, Lots of novelists, published and unpublished, never seem to learn this lesson. I think it was V.S. Pritchett who underlined it in the following quote: <em>One of the reasons why bad novels are bad is not that the characters do not live, but that they do not live with one another</em>. That’s pretty neat. I guess you can extend the technique beyond charm to give a well-rounded credibility -or any other attributes you care to chose – to your character through the eyes of others. Hm. Lots to think about in this post. Thanks.

jb says: Hi Bill, Lots of novelists, published and unpublished, never seem to learn this lesson. I think it was V.S. Pritchett who underlined it in the following quote: One of the reasons why bad novels are bad is not that the characters do not live, but that they do not live with one another.

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