Re: How do you age your characters?


"Catja Pafort" <green_knight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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<TrickyPatricky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'd choose a prop, an object in the children's lives, (i.e. the
swingset in the backyard, the growth marks on a door jamb, a tree
planted to mark a special occasion, ect...) and have the mother
reflect upon the changes in that object to show the passage of time.
It can be done with humor, if that's your "objective," the style of
your novel. This may not the correct POV, and you'd use names, but
here's an example:

"I've always wondered if Coca Cola really removed rust," she thought,
<snip>

That's a good way of putting it. Why can't I see those possibilities?

Externalisation. Grr.

It's a matter of habits. Would it help any to have more examples? Or to
have more rewrites of your internalized bits to externalized bits? (Yes,
it's been hot here and the cats are both shedding and I need to get the
vacuum out...why do you ask?)

Patricia C. Wrede


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