Episode 156 - Observing your characters with compassion. A conversation with Abbigail N. Rosewood

The Creative Writer's Toolbelt

Feb 07 2020 | 00:59:01

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Show Notes

This episode is a conversation with the Vietnamese born writer, Abbigail N. Rosewood, about her first novel 'If I had two lives'. In this conversation we talk about withholding judgement to maintain the story, how to use sensory information to introduce a character, how honesty can lead to empathy, and what it means to be understood as a writer.

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