Free-range characters control their own destinies, make their own mistakes and ultimately triumph using their own resources.
I’m presenting a workshop today at the Colorado Romance Writer’s conference. It’s my first time at this, the Romancing the Rockies conference. My presentation is called “Range Free Characters,” and it’s a craft workshop aimed at making fiction novels stronger by freeing a novel’s characters to pursue their own dreams, learn from their own mistakes, and triumph as a result of their own efforts. Expressed another way, it’s about allowing the protagonist(s) own inner story to drive the outer story, as opposed to the other way around. Stories that progress from the inside out makes character-driven stories shine. Well-known examples of this method are the storylines of the movies Titanic, Silence of the Lambs and the animated movie, Cars. What other well-known stories take full advantage of this concept?
. Emerald Silk, published by Five Star Publishing/Thorndike. This, the second in my Coin Forest Legend series, follows Kadriya and John's desperate pursuit of a stolen emerald chalice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Grade A! "Well-drawn characters and the strong sense of time and place will have readers rushing to read Tabor's Trinket, the prequel to this book.
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. . . . . . . Published by RMFW Press. Travel to this legendary Colorado town, nestled in the Rocky Mountain foothills, shrouded by myth and mystery. Join me and best-selling authors Cindi Myers, Jeff Shelby, and a select group of award-winning RMFW writers who weave inspiring, chilling and downright fun stories about this fictional town. 
