Blogging as Fictional Characters
A new way to develop greater depth in your characters
Any of you who read my Medium poems and articles on a semi-regular basis have noticed that I sometimes mention my novel-in-progress, currently titled Burnt-Over Memories. I had planned to spend more time working on it this Fall and spending less time on Medium.
I certainly don’t write on Medium for the money. My monthly earnings have been abysmal.
But I love all of my co-writers on Medium, especially the ones where we look for each other’s posts, read them, clap generously, and often leave friendly, helpful, and often insightful comments. I like you, gang.
But a likely solution has appeared. I can combine at least some of my Medium posts with ‘out-takes’ from my novel. I’ll explain more below.
One log-line I use to describe my novel is: “When photographer Cece Watts travels to rural Upstate New York to investigate the missing parts of her family’s history, she finds her surroundings are as strange as her family’s origins.”
There is a twist in the story that most of the female members of her family are either psychic…
