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If William Shakespeare Had Written Star Wars | Brain Pickings. I just read this in my Paper.li (which will be out as soon as I finish editing.) This is so much fun! It made me think of how writing in someone else’s style helps us improve our own writing.

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Creative Writing Reflection: Do Multiple Protagonists Require Some Pattern of Narration?

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Creative Writing with the Crimson League

Every story, and therefore every novel, has a protagonist: at least one. I wrote yesterday about troubles I’m having with a character trying to fight her way up, becoming more and more my novel’s dominant presence, and that now has me asking: how do you balance multiple protagonists?

Do you HAVE to balance them? Who says that when you have two or more characters linked with your narrator, they have to have equally distributed time in the spotlight?

MANAGING PAGE TIME

I love the term “screen time” in reference to television and film, so I figure for books, it makes sense to talk about a character’s page time (or even page presence, if you go in for alliteration.)

I’ve read posts and comments by fellow author-bloggers who sometimes get frightened by the thought of not keeping to a pattern where narration is concerned.

They worry that breaking an established…

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