Comments on: Heat with Heart Day 1, Finding that missing emotion

By: Workshop this summer? « Trivial Pursuits

Workshop this summer? « Trivial Pursuits — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:01:58 +0000

[...] one of the ones that got blackmailed (yes, it was blackmailed, not persuaded) into doing a workshop last year. While I doubt I’m the best candidate for doing any sort of workshop, I’m [...]

By: Shelley Munro Blog » Blog Archive » Out and About on the Web

Shelley Munro Blog » Blog Archive » Out and About on the Web — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:31:24 +0000

[...] Shiloh Walker has posts about Exploring Backstory and Heat with Heart (finding the missing emotion) [...]

By: Susan B.

Susan B. — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:19:30 +0000

Matt- after his girlfriend disappeared, he spent years searching for her and he allowed himself to be convinced that she was dead. His close association with the police during those years led to his joining the department and eventually being elected sheriff.

Alex- shocked over accidentally killing her father, Alex allowed herself to be taken away by one of his criminal associates and was then forced into the life of an assassin.

By: shilohwalker

shilohwalker — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:42:28 +0000

After a bad break-up she visits her family in Israel when an unfortunate accident leaves her stranded in the year 1192.

*G* Now that sounds like an understatement. An unfortunate accident…

Eh, I suck at most writing exercises too. There’s only a few that work for me and this is one of them.

By: fairiegreen

fairiegreen — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:08:09 +0000

Eliana Kohen is the black sheep of the family, an archeologist choosing to live in the States. After a bad break-up she visits her family in Israel when an unfortunate accident leaves her stranded in the year 1192.

Royce Beauguard, having no lands or title to call his own and an illegitimate brother to King Richard Lionheart, swears his sword arm and heads his personal guard. Finding the wounded exoctic beauty could cause Royce more than a few problems, it could cost him his life.

I always struggle with these kinds of exercises, but it was worth the try. Practice makes perfect I guess.:)

By: Exploring that back story « Trivial Pursuits

Exploring that back story « Trivial Pursuits — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:05:40 +0000

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By: shilohwalker

shilohwalker — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:38:53 +0000

– A Moorish soldier who is a virgin with no family known only as “al-Rahib,” the Monk. (That’s all I have. The dude is supposed to be an enigma on the page, not to me!)

That’s the whole point of things like this… trying to figure out how to make characters speak.

I’ve had several ones like that. One in particular.

By: Carrie Lofty

Carrie Lofty — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:43:34 +0000

This is from a sequel I’m supposed to be writing when I get back from Nationals. All I have is, um, some ideas. Rough stuff. Forgive me for using this as a rough notebook

(BTW–I love these online workshops with you and PBW and Rosina. I think I’ll learn more from these than the workshops at Nationals — more personal and less preening.)

– Ada, an Englishwoman and scholar in Toledo, Spain (year: 1200). She’s fleeing a traumatic imprisonment and what she sees as her sister’s betrayal. Opium beckons, a means of forgetting.

– A Moorish soldier who is a virgin with no family known only as “al-Rahib,” the Monk. (That’s all I have. The dude is supposed to be an enigma on the page, not to me!)

By: LJCohen

LJCohen — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:22:11 +0000

Never, never write live without sufficient coffee on board. Grrrr. “Driven by her failure to save her mother’s life, death has become her personal enemy.”

Should read: Driven by her failure to save her mother’s life, she had made death her personal enemy.

By: LJCohen

LJCohen — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:48:05 +0000

Lilliane is a gifted healer newly out of apprenticeship. Driven by her failure to save her mother’s life, death has become her personal enemy.

Zev is a diplomat from neighboring Tisreen, a fundamentalist, nomadic culture.

When Zev is critically wounded and brought to the guild for treatment, Lilliane stabilizes him, but discovers that many of his injuries were a result of torture her own government sanctioned. Torn between her healer’s oaths and obeying her guild’s orders, Lilliane saves his life and pays a high price. She is now a political liability to her guild and must flee with Zev before he is executed.

Lilliane challenges everything Zev believes about women and their roles. He moves through shame, resentment, and revulsion at the thought of a woman neither his relative or wife in close contact with him. And he continues to owe her a life-debt–without her skills as a healer, he won’t survive to return to Tisreen.