How to Blog as a Second Character From Your Book – Item #13

Posted on April 5th, 2011 in Writing by Carolyn Ann Aish

I already started a blog about a young girl who becomes a princess. She has a brother with whom she is always competing, and he with her. He teases her and she reacts. So, Jobyna’s brother, Luke, is starting a blog in competition to his sister. She is not supposed to know he is blogging too…

How to make two blogs interact and seem exciting and informative to the readers:

1. Choose your two main characters in your book / series.

2. Give insights into the characters that the reader will not find in the book(s)

3. Make the reader feel / believe they are ‘in the know’, that there are secrets that they alone know, even before the other character(s) in the story.

4. While you are writing, you must ‘become’ the first person, the ‘I’ in whose name you are writing.

5. Don’t reveal all – keep the reader hooked for more.

6. If it is not exciting for you to be writing this, then don’t… or better still, make it so exciting that you cannot stop yourself from writing it. That way, the reader will be practically forced to keep reading and keep coming back for more.

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