Oops! I know you all spent the weekend staring at my blog clicking refresh in hopes of spotting some mention of last week's show and tell. I'm very badly behaved, however, and forgot to post.
Anyway, I read a quote by Ray Bradbury from "Letters to a Fiction Writer." In that text, Bradbury advises a young writer to chase his characters wherever they want to go. The exercise provides writers a much-needed familiarity with their character, and even though most of that adventure might get cut from the story, the final product contains a greater breadth and coherence than it otherwise might have had. I'll post the actual quote soon ...
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